Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"

• Focal@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Huh? What is this analogy? Doesn’t make sense to me. In this case, your mountain bike provider is the sole provider of courses in the world and is now deciding to get rid of all off-road courses. Only asphalt remains.

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  • kevinsky@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right, but why would they keep maintenance on these courses going if nobody uses them and only uses their mountainbike to ride to work, over the asphalt? Why not focus on making them better for that instead?

    The community at large stopped buying games on disc. Evidently to the point Sony feels confident enough to axe them entirely without too much noise. So far it seems to me they are right, I don’t really see the public outrage you can get with other controversies like the launch state of some games.

    And why wouldn’t they honestly, this has been pretty much the reality in the PC landscape since the PS3 era. And yeah, technically on the PC there is “comptetition” in terms of other digital storefronts but it’s mostly the publisher that decide where you buy their game, not you. So in practice it’s highly debateable how much that actually works as proper competition for the consumer.

    Sony is now going to have to keep the Playstation interesting to people without offline disc deals, we’ll see how they manage…

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    • Focal@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I suppose we’ll see, but if the numbers were real, seems 15% still bought physical. I’m one of those. I pretty much only buy games physically. I wouldn’t mind if they kept selling the mountain bike (disc drive) and let others maintain the roads of their own volition. (Super rare games, etc.)

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