Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.

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• Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Digital isnt the worst thing, but how “ownership” is controlled can be. I wouldn’t blame Sony for the move but their method is garbage, and their past practices with digital ownership is too.

  GoG on the other hand knows how it should be done. I have tons of games from them on a thumb drive. I’ve neber actually needed to use it, but its nice to know I can. Major kudos to them. That said, most of my games are owned on steam, which still has DRM, but at least I can play those games on a 20 year old PC, a modern one, a box in my living room, or on a multitude of hand helds. With Sony you are tied to a specific console and thats that. Good fucking luck when they stop selling that console.

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    DRM on Steam is up to the publisher.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. It’s impossible to sell a game DRM-free on Steam. They always require a connection to Valve’s servers to install, regardless of what the publisher wants. GOG lets you download the installer as a file that you can use wherever or whenever you want.

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    • Larry@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Steam is DRM

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• Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nintendo churns out the same slop franchises year after year and aggressively sues anyone for anything.

  Sony (somehow) believes that investors are what give their company value, not customers, and certainly not employees. They’re abandoning physical media and not backing down on their anti-consumer practices that only continue to get worse.

  Microsoft has become the new EA, aggressively buying up every single schmedium-sized gaming studio they can get their hands on, mismanageing them all into the ground, then selling them off for parts to save their own asses while leaving talented studios to die on the vine. They’re basically buying the right to scrap their competition and they’ll get away with it because they have enterprise IT subscriptions to absorb the losses.

  AAA gaming is dead. And greed killed it. I’ll be playing indie PC games and emulators while buying Sony puts for the foreseeable future.

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nintendo churns out the same slop franchises

    looks at most highly rated video games of all time

    Look mate, not everything you don’t personally like is “slop”.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Popularity does not imply quality.

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    • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And the Switch titles in all of those franchises range from some of, to the flat out worst, in their respective series.

      TotK may as well be DLC for BotW, and Windwaker would have been more similar to those titles were it not for the technical limitations of the Gamecube.

      They still can’t seem to get Starfox right since 64 and even that was a reboot of the NES title. You’re really gonna look at all those 3DS attempts to reboot the same NES game and tell me that’s not slop?

      Pokémon is seeing the worst quality of the whole franchise on Switch and apparently Pokémon Go was just to train military robots or some shit. You’re really gonna look at 3DS models in a Switch game and tell me that’s not slop, my opinion is just wrong?

      Smash Ultimate’s online play has 11, ELEVEN frames of input lag under ideal circumstances, the metagame has been busted since Steve, DLC characters are OP, patches were promised, then canceled, and support is over now. You’re really gonna tell me that’s acceptable, totally not slop, my opinion just sucks?

      I hope you play Switch games forever, and I hope you love it.

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ive thought slop is ai specific. Looks like the word may be seeing a change in meaning.

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  • Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Greed has been a problem in the AAA game space for a long time. It’s just that before reliable Internet connections, it was harder to exploit people.

    Before this, it was lootboxes and gambling Mechanics, before that, it was microtransactions, balancing the game to incentivise spending money, and before that it was chopping bits off the game and selling it as DLC.

    Prior to that, the worst we got was cheap sequels and shovelware.

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  • Aceofspades@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s all about maximizing shareholder value. Unfortunately, companies have come to the realization that happy customers are no longer the path to success. There is more value in capturing a market and then gutting services to squeeze those pennies out. Long term this can’t be sustainable but here we are.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they will just end up putting mtx into everything.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a whole wide world of AAA video games out there aside from those you mentioned. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II was fantastic just last year; Metaphor: ReFantazio the year before that; Baldur’s Gate 3 the year before that; Elden Ring the year before that. Plenty more still might be significantly smaller, but it would be difficult to count something like The Alters as indie; or Invincible VS or Screamer or Mouse: P.I. for Hire.

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    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Indie doesn’t mean “small and pixel art game”. It means the studio is independent. Kingdom Come and BG3 were made by independent studios with little to no help from pubblishers (if any at all).

      The rest you mentioned at max could be considered AA or simply A games IF there was a pubblisher behind them helping with development. What you said was a world of AAA games aside those mentioned is actually a world out there aside AAA games.

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    • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And all of those are available on an open platform digitally if not available on physical media.

      Maybe controversial, but I and most of my friends have said fuck GTA6. We’ll wait to see what happens with the PC release.

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    • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The big games you mention here are what most would coin AA titles, AA is absolutely still able to hit homeruns at time.

      But the AAA (biggest budget games) plays a bit too safe, I have a feeling GTA VI might be a banger. But that’s an anomaly for a AAA game.

      We need more innovative games, triple A’s should be able to invent new things. Studios quite often does so, and then has it gutted by publishers/investors because it carries too high of a risk

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they lucky pokemon is sustaining nintendo directly and indirectly, even its mostly slop games. even the physical card game became kinda like slop.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  only responds to their investors…

  Did you know this is legally enforceable? The shareholders can sue a publicly company if it doesn’t prioritize ‘shareholder value’. For example a company that cut profit instead of doing layoffs.

  It’s not spoiled leadership, but a rotten ecosystem that breeds amphibian avarice as the dominant culture.

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  • HailSeitan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, a company cannot be sued for failing to maximize shareholder value. The business judgment rule protects any company that want a to raise wages, refrain from layoffs, donate to charity, offer sick leave, etc. What they can’t do is not pursue profit at all. Now, will shareholders vote them out if they do those things? Maybe, but that’s a totally different mechanism than a lawsuit.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As I understand business judgement rule makes the assumption that the company did its decisions in good faith. It doesn’t mean a shareholder derivative lawsuit can’t happen. The shareholders can still sue, and there have been instances where it has been done, but in addition to suing the shareholders would then have to prove loss of profits alongside negligence or bad faith or whatever led to the loss of profits.

      Realistically this shouldn’t happen as it probably costs more to prove the company didn’t make every penny of profit it could, but we live in weird times where things that shouldn’t happen do happen so let’s not count out the improbable.

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• Tamps@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m reluctant to buy any digital games on anything but Steam at this point, and that’s because Valve has begrudingly earned my trust over 20 years of use. I do wonder what plans are in place for the point at which Gabe isn’t around to steer Valve.

  I have zero confidence in any other game related corporation to have a long term view in mind, and especially not one in which the platform is designed to be consumer friendly.

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  • Caffeinated_Capybara@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would trust GOG too. At least as long as they let you download offline installers.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk bought 3 games on Steam just the other day and all three came with pop up when I went to install them to let me know that I was only License to use them.

    While I bought 3 games on GOG same day and they only asked if I wanted to donate to their fund to keep games DRM free and letting me know that I own all my games I purchased.

    Valve might be going to shit.

    Is there anyway to backup our games purchased on Steam?

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is there anyway to backup our games purchased on Steam?

      Yes, you can copy the install folders for them. Some can be modified to run without Steam fairly easily, some will need more involved cracks.

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    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a license to own a copy of the game because you’re not buying the actual game.

      A license is ownership. That’s how all software has always worked, same as music and movies.

      What remains to be seen is if courts will enforce the ownership in the light of the anti-consumer practices by publishers and developers removing people’s access to that which they have purchased.

      This is a great video explaining everything from the guy who started Stop Killing Games.

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  • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Putting your trust on any company is already a mistake. The only correct answer is GoG, or other similar DRM free distributions. You don’t have to trust them, because it doesn’t matter what they might pivot to: you still have your downloaded games, and they still work without any connectivity.

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• mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been years buying digital for PC but never did once on PS4, PS3 or XBOX 360, I mean what the point? The only reason to have a console was so that you can sell your discs once played or lending to friends.

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  • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We used to be able to do that with PC games, too. But then Valve and Apple killed physical PC games.

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apple killed physical PC games

      Valve, sure. But this is a leap of logic that I have to hear more about.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How did apple do it?

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The PS5 probably won’t see any noticeable decrease in game sales, because pretty much everyone who wants one already has one, but I’ll be interested to see if gamers call Sony’s bluff for the PS6 or not.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t have much faith in them turning down the PS6 if the calls to boycott Hogwarts Legacy is anything to go by.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’ll see. Boycotting a $1000+ digital only console will be easier than boycotting a $70 game.

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    • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It doesn’t even have to be a boycott.

      Practically, just as an amoral consooomer, there’s no reason to purchase a non-upgradable, barely-customizable gaming device when you could buy an upgradable, highly customizable gaming device that you can do whatever you want with.

      My primary console since my teenage years has always been a Playstation. That will change probably before the PS6 even comes out. I have a PS5, I probably won’t sell it just in case of any interesting exclusives. (Lmao, I know, magical thinking, considering there are still only 6 such games, none of which appeal to me enough to buy them). I’m planning to get a PC and buy everything I can on there instead.

      Some reminders of Playstation’s bullshit other than just physical media:

      • Removed the ability for you to back up your PS5 game saves to USB, forcing you to buy PS+ or risk losing your save data permanently if something goes wrong.
      • Discontinued free multiplayer services, ostensibly to improve the security of their network after North Korea hacked their shit for releasing a movie about assassinating Kim Jong Un (or Kim Jong Il, I don’t remember). Morally, idgaf about mocking North Korea, but economically, I do give a fuck about paying a corporation $80 per year to cover their operating expenses for doing so.
      • Discontinued most forms of customization. PS3 and PSP could install full-on user-made themes, or you could make your own, even customizing things like the sound the interface makes when you scroll through it. Now you literally cannot even set a proper background.
      • Refused to manufacture their controllers with hall effect joysticks (which prevent controllers from developing stick drift). Both ridiculously-expensive PS5 controllers I bought developed stick drift, and I’m not particularly rough with them or anything, not at all prone to gamer rage lol. I bought a third-party controller (SZ-5005B) with hall effect joysticks and haven’t had any issues since.

      I’m sure there’s tons more too. Also the PS5 interface just generally sucks shit, like sometimes my Media Gallery is on my homepage and sometimes it’s not despite me not changing any settings, or just other stupid design choices.

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    • antiR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think a lot less people care about consoles now. People are moving over to mobile, not necessarily solely Android or iOS, but stuff like Switch or Steamdeck.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every company that goes public stock shifts their priority from customers to investors.

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• andyburke@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  https://kazeta.org/

  don't need these shitty corporations and their walled platforms...

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  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Love this project so much

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    First ive heard of it!

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• TechAnon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m starting to think consoles are cooked. The massive jumps in technology between console generations have turned into small incremental steps. The game quality has dropped (independent games and a few others are exceptions). PC’s used to be slow to boot and load a game vs consoles and also required updates to download, but now PCs are quick and updates are mostly automatic. Consoles used to be nice to just turn on and play without thinking about all that other stuff, yet now they require downloads and updates as well. Loading times aren’t much better either. Consoles used to also be very cheap compared to PCs, but now with the “next gen” being around $1000 the price difference isn’t that huge anymore - especially when you factor in modular updates that can be done to a PC to cheaply extend it’s life. One of the last hold outs for consoles were physical games and now they’re taking that away too.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While I don’t think that the next console generation will flop entirely, I do strongly suspect that it won’t be as successful as previous ones have been and will lead to a shift where consoles are just cheap streaming boxes that support a subscription to a cloud gaming service, which will eventually be replaced by a single device that can connect to whichever services you want.

    PC gaming will be similar for most AAA titles (and in fact will be one of the devices that can support these services), though indie devs will hold out until the requirement of owning a PC leaves only a tiny market.

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    • TechAnon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s an interesting take and I can see things moving in that direction. The problem for the console makers is at that point, anyone can make a dumb box to stream with very cheap hardware.
      That means the fight will be over exclusives. It’s going to look like streaming services, huh? $15/mo for PS network, $15/mo for Xbox network… Yuck. At that point I’ll stick to indie games locally on PC.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you’re underestimating the number of people who just don’t want to take on the secondary hobby of building a PC in the first place.

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    • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cyberpower. iBuyPower. Even Starforge. There’s a bunch of builders out there to remove that “scariness.”

      It’s a personal choice, but if they were willing to spend 5-10 minutes to download something like Bazzite and click the 10 total clicks to install it, you’d achieve a console-like experience too.

      The information is out there, it’s just not forcefed to you because of a massive marketing budget.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I built my first PC 6 years ago, before PS5 was released.

    My PC can still play new release AAA games at high quality graphics and probably will for a number of years still… when it starts to slack a couple hundred $ and it will be good as new.

    Was pricey up front but in the end better quality, more choice, and longer lasting.

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    • TechAnon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Me too. AM4 platform. Just upgraded the CPU to a 5800X3D and will get a 5070 TI (maybe super?) soon. This old machine will out perform a PS6 and I can use it as a regular PC as well. The price difference (assuming I would have purchased a PS5/pro and will have purchased a PS6) is minimal especially if you consider (which you have) the higher quality gaming experience.

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  • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not to forget obligatory subscriptions.

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• Ismay@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Got fed u with the fucking stick drift and Sony’s bullshit. Plugged my Rog ally that was taking dust to the TV, put bazzite on it. Now I can play what I want with a 20$ controller.

  Playstation can go to hell.

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• keyhoh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What would really grind Sony’s gears is if everyone stops updating their system and waits for the PS5 Linux hacks to catch up to their firmware version. Then, they install Linux and get Steam working and only buy digital games from Steam and GOG, or emulate older games, on their Linux hacked PS5.

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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even cracking it to play ps5 titles would be amazing. Otherwise, idk what I’m doing with it.

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    • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      PS5 emulators I saw recently were able to get games to boot for the first time. So, getting there already!

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Likely won’t happen. Consoles these days are getting almost impossible to jailbreak.

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    • keyhoh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t underestimate the human spirit so much. There’s already been inroads made on early firmware versions of the PS5 where the hacker was able to play GTA5 at full settings on his PS5. The PS4 has a great jailbreaking community now too. There’s also been steps in getting PS5 emulsion off the ground. It’s only a matter of time. Seriously, check it out. I hacked my PS4 earlier though month and I can watched a hacked YouTube with no ads, and emulate games using retro arch. It’s pretty sweet.

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• melfie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meh, most games are available on PC, and the exclusives that aren’t will come to emulators eventually. It’s worth paying extra for a PC that can run anything you like, including games, especially when you can install Linux and cut a ton of bullshit out of your life.

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• sealhaslupus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sony didn’t really “double down”. The decision to wind down their physical games category was made years ago. Everything after the initial public announcement is to manage public relations.

  Not sure many outside Japan realise but Sony are a conglomerate that dip their fingers into unrelated industries. This to them is clearly just a line through a smaller category on the balance sheet.

  There’s a discussion to be had about ownership and physical games but i think that market is going to re-emerge in the future in perhaps a more bespoke way, like the resurgence of music vinyls.

  To me, Sony seems to be interested in just managing the distribution of IP opposed to “gaming” itself. They’re not true custodians in that space or if they were, then they’re not now.

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  • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2 clarifications:

    1 - because of Sony’s requirements for printing physical discs, it requires permission and effort from Sony itself. A company cannot simply burn blurays for playstation games, they MUST engage Sony. This isnt interest in just managing of the IP, this is specifically to increase profit by removing physical needs altogether (shipping, manufacturing, distribution, etc) as well as snuffing out the second hand market which, in theory, would drive more profit towards Sony, and finally it provides control. Access can be revoked, products become fluid, and the store can remove your access to older versions if a remake or remaster comes out that you would then have to buy on the new storefront.

    2 - they directly respond to shareholder questions around the backlash to the announcement, which they refer to as “various opinions.” They did not retract their statement, and choose to push forward. How is that not doubling down?

    There are various reasons we made this decision, the biggest being that the digitalization of content overall has been progressing. That’s the big factor," he said. "It’s not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of content; digitalization is progressing. And so, when we think about the future – and we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this – and we came to this conclusion, and we’re going to cautiously move this forward.

    Tao added, “And to this decision, we have received various opinions and people have strong views, and we understand that the community has put forth those views to us.”

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    • sealhaslupus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i was referring to physical games as a whole and not necessarily tied to Playstation games or their discs.

      They’ve been transitioning this specific manufacturing division since 2024. It can’t be a “double down” because they’re not going to revert two years of already re-trained staff and re-purposed equipment because of online forum talk.

      Messages to shareholders like this is pretty standard. They’re basically saying:

      • decision is final
      • components manufacturing is more lucrative than disc manufacturing
      • we will distribute our IP

      So they’re hedging their bets on what their future could be. If they lose out on gaming they’ll make back on microlenses.

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• fascistno1hater@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well this will be my last PlayStation. I only buy discs so I can trade them with my friends.

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• Smaile@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  im never buying a sony title again.

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  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Last Of Us 3 would be the only digital game I’d still buy for my PS5.

    For the rest, no disc, no buy as I’m moving to Steam/Gog anyway.

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    • Smaile@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Last of us” :/

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• Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guess Im done with Playstation moving forward.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Fiduciary responsibility”

  Thanks Milton Friedman!

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• danielfm123@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well… That goes against the theory of economics, Sony will learn the hard way, like they did with memory stick.

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• BC_viper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I haven’t bought a physical game in years. But I also haven’t owned a PS since 2 so fuck Playstation.

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• NRay7882@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stand-down August 23rd-30th. Want to send a fuck you to Sony? Fuck their profits, then they’ll understand.

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  • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not saying don’t do it, but it’s a blip on the radar. As someone who works in tech, a week blackout looks like a bunch of people going on vacation. Especially during August, which is during many summer vacations.

    Never buy a digital title for a console. If you need to buy digital, buy it on the open hardware platform.

    If you really want to send a message, deleting your account or cancelling PS plus if you have it does more. That shows a decline in MoM retention.

    Timed boycotts are an assimilation to corporate control. If the goal of a boycott is to affect change it must be indefinite as the change it wishes to bring about is required to end it.

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No tangible amount of people are going to put their money where their mouth is. Gamers have time and time again shown that they can be screwed over. I mean look at the state of the big games now and games as a service taking over, people are happily paying $20+ for a skin in a game, something that used to come included with the game as an unlock.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nobody has explained how simply not using the console you already bought would affect their profits negatively at all. If anything it will lower their server costs from the reduced bandwidth for a month.

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    • imecth@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As long as you keep using the console you're still in the walled garden, you're still giving them data to harvest, being exposed to their ads, padding their MAU numbers... Server costs are negligible - it's what allows F2P to work as a monetization model.

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    • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ^ now that’s a boycott

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  • digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gave it a go this week. Did some Gardening made a friend :

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    At least someone likes my cauliflower 👍

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    • wittymyusername@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This game looks boring. Graphics are weak. How much XP did you get for the bird friending quest?

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fiduciary responsibility or not, Sony is a big company with their fingers dipped in a lot of stuff, and decisions have a lot of inertia. The moment we learned they retooled some factories it was clear this has been in the making for a while and they will not back off. Sony (or at least the playstation division) is compromised and we need to focus on alternative solutions.

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• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If I were an investor, I’d be worried they aren’t listening to the wallets with legs consumers.

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  • TeaWithDani@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most of the ‘‘smart money’’ is just in it for the short term. Get all the value possible out of their position and be the first out. The bagholders will be the same wallets with legs, us, who hold all that shit in our pension funds, IRAs and whatever.

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• Flossyfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m shocked

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• lemmelemmy@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m surprised that they haven’t brought up the negative environmental effect of producing dvd’s as an excuse.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m surprised that they haven’t brought up the negative environmental effect of producing compact discs and enclosures as an excuse.

    They’re still planning to release empty cases with codes in the box, so that tells you how much of a shit they give about that.

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  • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Found a PS5 slim at a cashies for $350USD with an exploitable firmware, so it looks like I’ll be able to play GTA VI without giving either a dime!

    I mean, probably more sane to just wait for the PC release but there’s also the fun of jailbreaking the consoles.

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    • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m just waiting for a better, more permanent jailbreak to use before I jump into that

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• FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are there analog console titles?

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t think of any.

    The closest I can think of are games distributed on cassette for 80’s microcomputers like the C64 but I can’t think of anything you’d call a “console” that accepted those.

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  • Valo85@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pinball?

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  guess they are “too big to fail” huh

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• minorkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They know you won’t leave, you’re all junkies at this point.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The rumored price point for the ps6 is going to be about the same as the steam machine. People will be able to get their fix just as easily somewhere else.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Step 1 Get in an accident

  Step 2 Claim the last ad you saw on your screen had you upset and extremely distracted.

  Step 3 ???/profit?

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• Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m curious what PlayStation fans would think about changing from a disc plus download, like it is now, to a cartridge like Switch uses?

  I think it would be a thousand times easier to get Sony on board with that idea.

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