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- Comment on "We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs 13 hours ago:
“Of course, consoles are important, but the proportion of people who play on PCs is steadily increasing. Even in areas where consoles are not widely available, there are many people who say, ‘I can play it on PC.’”
This quote hits a little different when you know that Sega sells almost everything digitally for PC in the Americas and Europe, but virtually nothing within Japan and other selected countries.
They do not care about making their games available to customers. They care about profits. Overseas, the PC segment is big enough to be worth pursuing. In some countries it outstrips the console segment. But in Japan it’s small enough that it makes more sense not to support PC, but rather to try to keep customers locked in to consoles, where they have tighter control and less competition.
- Comment on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours 4 weeks ago:
It’s 2026 and people are still falsely conflating digital with suspect and physical with safe. We live in a world where plenty of commercial software that comes “on a disk” is unuseable without constant approval from the publisher, and plenty of “digital download” software can be downloaded once and then used and reinstalled forever without needing to ask for anyone’s permission.
I understand the confusion. For a long time, you got an item on physical media, and no-one could take it away from you. Then downloads and cloud services became popular, and at the same time this crap started happening. But not everyone’s trying to screw us with downloads, and the people who are, are doing their damndest to screw us via physical media as well.
The issue isn’t digital vs. physical, it’s own vs. lease.