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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Sony must surely have some alternate motive for this, since it’s clearly going to cost them a fuckton in sales.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  … doesn’t that prove their point?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I can’t really name many businesses who’d be happy to part with more than a third of their customers.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Those numbers are probably inflated by customers “sticking it to Sony” because the purchases are done after Sony announced killing physical.

      As for parting with a third (or more realistically a fifth like the former PS boss mentioned), that’s just a simple math question. Is the cost of keeping factories running, studios creating “masters”, keeping the supply chain active, factoring in the retail margin and maybe some other cost factors I don’t remember off the bat. Is all of that worth keeping 20% of the customers around? The profit margin, compared to selling digital directly, is probably non-existent.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That’s a preference though, not a hard loss

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    These customers had the option to purchase a digital copy, but preferred to either drive to a store or wait a few days for a delivery. That means a lot.

    Either that, or they don’t have access to high speed internet and relied on the physical copy to get the game in a reasonable amount of time.

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