Yes. Far preferable and I gave you reasons why.

Care to comment on that, or just going to sling insults?

Yep. Might as well do it somewhere.

Nice to call me a dumbass. You a sony boot licker or what?

To your point:

Tiny sample size: but there is a cool test where a person played the CD and the Vinyl of a song to a group of friends. They choose the Vinyl as best sounding. So he then digitally recorded the record and tried again, playing the vinyl and the recording of the vinyl. Nobody could tell the difference!

Which means one of two things: the vinyl setup was better and/or the CD was not mastered in a appealing way. Likely is number two.

Yep. No sense in complaining at all the other places. And Sony has been fucking over people forever, its what they do.

The last thing I need is more crap around the house. I vastly prefer digital, as long as I get the files and can do anything I want with them.

I am opposed to DRM, but digital itself is far preferable. When I travel knowing I can grab any game I want from my server (before or even after I arrive) and play it on any device I want is far superior to having to carry around physical items that only work with one device - a device I also would have to bring with me.

The problem is people already gave in when they choose a system that is useless for anything except one specific purpose and one specific game format.

Your last sentence fits perfectly about their hardware.

They really aren’t the best, for a lot of reasons, but I should not have brought that up. If anything you are saying the mixes and mastering for vinyl are best.

Anyways my point still stands. These are incredibly environmentally nasty. The music industry loves them because they can sell the same music to you yet again.

Because this is freaking everywhere. People won’t shut up about it, and it’s Sony. Have people not been paying attention?

Rolls eyes. This is getting so boring. It’s Sony. You don’t need games. You certainly don’t need their hardware.

I couldn’t care less.

Edit: left out a word! No wonder people jumped on me, lol. I meant to say you don’t need SONYS games.

Blah, blah, blah. So tired of hearing about this.

Nobody should be trusting Sony, disc or no disc.

Rootkit anyone?

Twice Linux promised and then removed with a bait and switch?

So Sony isn’t going to have physical disks, so fucking what. Just other thing on the pile.

That’s one of the use cases NFTs were meant for, noncustodial transferable digital property.

How would you: make the key transferable and secret, while still notifying the original vender it happened, and collect payment, and keep me from selling and turning off the key?

And once the vendor went away, no new keys would be issued. So why make a public crypto ledger, when their ledger suffices?

Just like an NFT. Useless in this case too.

similarly to vinyls for music.

This one sucks so much. Vinyl coming back is awful.

• It is heavy, it costs a lot and takes a lot of energy to transport
• it is made of plasticizers, usually phthalates with lead as a stabilizer
• it degrades from every use
• the waste chemicals are often dumped into rivers and streams in poor populations
• a lot of energy is used in the steaming and pressing
• the sound quality is not as good as people think it is (inner distortion anyone?) and the “warm” and “feel good” sound are easily replicated in other ways. I don’t want to dwell on this one. Lets just say mastering and your equipment have a lot to do with this.

I am confused, most of these responses have sites you can go back and visit on the way back machine.

But your questions is “find no trace of”.

Which is it people?

You can search it still with Kagi, they indexed it. Then take the results, right click on open in waybackmachine on archive.org

OK, I was looking over Does It Play and a lot do let you play without updates, although the site notes those can have a lot of issues before being patched.

It was more than I would have thought, since everyone I know with a ps5 seems to spend more time getting updates than actually playing, lol.

Or old enough to not care that much. What am I going to do with more plastic?

BUT, I should have been more clear that I was talking only about ps5 and ps5 owners. I would never own one. Their online account is annoying and I have never forgiven them for the rootkit.

I was surprised to find out that there are games that will play without the internet. Although every ps5 MUST be connected to the internet first to link the disc drive to the device.

I used Does It Play to look at the games, and a lot of them will not work without updates. I assumed all at this point, which is why I said what I said.

Keeps going.

Congratulations. You ignored the interesting part and killed the chance of a conversation about it.

How pedantic of you.

I truly didn’t understand the point of this question worded this way.

Good job.

Ok, then the question didn’t need the extra fluff:

How much have you spent on steam. Is that what they want to know?

I am completely fine with that. I wouldn’t really expect anything different.

Nobody wants my steam account, they want and have their own, so its fine.

I don’t get the question.

The money is gone now, so it’s already “lost”.

Or do you mean how many games did I buy that I have never played? That is an interesting metric I guess.