Great chance to lay off thousands of retail workers ❤️

At that point why not just play it on PC? Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn't even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet? (Or worse, play via a launcher?)

Also, are the games gonna be cheaper now that they don't need to produce the disks and packaging, transport them, store them in warehouses, stock them on shelves, etc.?

If supply and demand were a real science, this would represent infinite supply, right? So, wouldn't you expect the price to approach 0.00?

It was just bound to happen. The moment Xbox had dropped the ball and PS became the monopolist, it was obvious that they would start doing some extremely predatory shit and that's just it. There you have it. The enshittification at it's finest.

Reverse that and we're golden.

Plus worst case you can always just pirate it.

Yeah, I have not gone through my old ps2 games in a while. I just got a new cable and everything

Yes. We will priced out or in the long term even forbidden from owning the hardware needed to run games and other demanding sofware natively. All this to grant us the honor to rent back what we used to own through the cloud

I mean... the internet is the cloud and such? Your local computer isn't generating the internet. The internet is all the accessible things from all the computers plugged in to it.

Theoretically browsing the internet is an extremely low demand thing to do with a PC. It used to be considered one of the lowest, until modern browsers became mostly one browser and every company decided it's job was to harvest as much of your data as possible.

Not sure what the image is referencing exactly, but recently Sony announced they plan to kill off disks entirely, and so their games and everything will all be digital download... and also they just straight up deleted 551 movies they'd sold for years to tons of people, with no refunds or fucks given, because... I guess they didn't want to pay to renew their license to sell them? And decided to make it retroactive. Because fuck poor people.

Been enjoying old games and a large backlog for quite a while. No intention to buy the latest and greatest anymore.

But I'm old.

Thing is, if "digital" actually meant "own" we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Is this one of those things where the old "block chain" could be helpful? Like, a mechanism for actual digital ownership where one can have reasonable assurance that the thing one has downloaded actually belongs to them? That, so long as there's a unique key, one can access that digital item whenever one desires--AND can transfer that to someone else by way of sale or trade?

Unironically, I can see physical game theft rising again as the supply is cut off altogether and plastic rot destroys what already exists.

Screwed from both sides.

I don’t keep my physical games, I buy and sell them regulary, so I keep my cost per game low, even for new titles. My problem with digital is that I cannot resell, it’s just a license I rent for full price

Now Sony cuts out the middle man and steals it from you directly.

while I know it can happen, I haven’t had any taken from me since.

I had a couple hundred bucks worth of titles in my Amazon Digital Comics account when they shut all that down.

I think that for now Nintendo Sony and Microsoft are keeping old stores accessible even if it costs them because they calculated the negative PR would cost them more (people wouldn't hoard digital licenses for titles that don't have time to play if they knew there's a potential to be removed from their account before first install)

Ubisoft instead had no problems in removing titles from the Uplay accounts, instead