• CarpalTunnelButt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10 hours

    It’s interesting because Japan has traditionally been very big on physical media. I guess Sony PlayStation has had some foreign CEOs recently that may be a factor??

  • a1studmuffin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12 hours

    I would have understood them making this call for PS6 onwards - digital edition only. But while they’re still selling disc PS5s at eye-watering prices? What the fuck are they thinking? Way to burn good will with your ever-shrinking fanbase.

  • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18 hours

    They’re just trying to ride out the backlash until we all get distracted enough by other news to forget about it.

    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
      English
      13 hours

      Yeh they’re expecting the upcoming Microsoft/xbox layoff-ocalypse to dominate the news and make their news yesterday’s story. I’d bet they were expecting the layoffs to be announced yesterday on the Friday.

      Also there’s nothing they can say that hasn’t been said already that will make people who are angry change their minds, so there’s literally no point. It’s a vocal minority and t bill thing for them to do is ignore it.

    • 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18 hours

      I agree. No point in documenting the backlash with social media posts when they aren’t going to change their decision.

      On a side note, are physical copies of games anything more than install disks anymore?

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 hours

      Wait what? I thought there was a new one in the works? I could have swore I saw a post about it this week.

    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
      English
      13 hours

      Unfortunately even a super low spec pc is still double the price of a PS5.

      Also the overwhelming majority of console owners are already 100% digital.

      • neo2478@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6 hours

        From the digital side,you can purchase games from gog, which offers DRM free games. You can download the installers and use them in perpetuity.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 hours

        Right now? Yes.

        Before the AI bullshit, no. There was a ton of builds you could do for the cost of the PS5. Not everything needs to be current gen. On top of that most people who build a PC don’t upgrade it for a good 5+ years usually (if not longer), and you’re usually not upgrading everything at once, just the GPU usually. It’s not needed since games literally still run perfectly fine for years and years on older hardware. AM4 systems running ddr4 are now a decade old. I have an AM4 system running a 5800xt (second CPU) and a 6900xt (bought used), and it still handles pretty much everything on high settings @ 1080p, even new stuff that comes out.

        That or buy a steam deck for like $300 used lol

  • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
    22 hours

    I am imagining the marketers leaving the office with life jackets riding small boats. 🛟🚣

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    19 hours

    Sony being an absolute dick, like they have been for the past 4 decades

    This is not a new thing

    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
      English
      13 hours

      💯, and despite being one the most anti-consumer companies around, the tens of millions of fanboys will buy their stuff no questions asked, and defend them to the end of the earth on all major gaming forums. Neogaf, Resetera, Reddit, ign, etc are all basically Sony fan sites where basically everyone hopes and prays for a PlayStation monopoly.

      Note having said that, this was inevitable as physical game sales are basically dead. It makes sense. It’ll upset a bunch of people, but they’ll still buy every PlayStation console, sub to PS+, and buy all their games on PlayStation.

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    15 hours

    Discs were already kinda starting to push their limits as far as their storage capacity on a single disc, it wouldn’t.be profitable with modern AAA games for much longer anyway IMO. 100GB bluray would be like 10-20 bucks on the raw disc alone IIRC

    • treesquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 hours

      They would sell you a game on 20 discs if you’d buy it that way. The price of discs is negligible. They are trying to kill the availability of used games so they can charge $60 for 10 year-old games because there are no other options.

    • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
      13 hours

      Blu ray discs cost pennies to manufacture, especially at scale.

      Also, Sony owns the blu ray IP.

      Also also, if they gave a fuck they could just ship 2 discs in a box. Like they did at the tail end of the xbox 360 days.

      They’d just rather not deal with it anymore.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        11 hours

        I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony stops producing Blu-ray soon.

        We have the technology for the next generation of discs that could support 8k. It just happens to be that no one wants to put money into creating the standard.

        Sony may not want to deal with it anymore.