Me who hasn’t played in 3 months: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

(Being an adult sucks sometimes ;-; )

Sony already has their money and folks ain't cancelling ps plus so not sure what boycotters hope to accomplish here.

Nah, just not gonna buy a PS6.

Maybe people should do this with the subscription instead.

If people would stop whining about how boycotts aren't gonna work and actually tried for once, maybe you'd see a different result. If you actually give a shit about this, stop spreading the message about how it's hopeless, and start telling Sony to kick rocks.

Just a week? PlayStation has been a predatory service for over a decade now. Ever since they started charging you a yearly fee to play with your friends, they entered into the “evil company” territory. I’ll play single player games on my PS5, but I can’t justify buying a multiplayer game for PlayStation when Steam lets me play for free with my friends, at a much better price point.

Cynical take: this will achieve absolutely nothing, but I’m sure the half dozen people who actually boycott (rather that just saying they will) will feel really good about themselves after.

So after Pablo Torre did two episodes on the EA College Football 27 boycott and microtransaction reversal, playstation fans decided on the most toothless way to show their displeasure. Brilliant.

The best protest is not to buy their next console.

Shame I don't have a PS5 so I can't protest. I'm glad I chose to abandon all consoles this generation though. All three players are utter scum at this point.

As someone who basically put all my eggs into the PS5 as my console to do a physical collection for I am incredibly disappointed with this.

I wouldn't have cared whatsoever if they said PS6 is digital only. Wouldn't have bought a digital only console regardless.

But the idea that a game from a series I have collected for that comes out after 2028 won't have a disc is such a bummer.

I'm still coping they reverse the decision but I don't think thats likely. That or just let the random limited print companies continue to do their thing for the few people left who care?

I'll continue to not turn on my PS5 for the last like 18 months.

And nothing happens. Because they NEED to play video games. 😒

Just go to this post for a perfect example of the "Gamer hivemind"

Too late for me. Mine's been off for 51 weeks in the past 52 weeks 😂

... The PS3 is the Last Sony console ive owned, and it was a gift from my wife. So I think I'm good.

Cancelled PSN. I will only buy preowned disk games for the console.

A boycott against ps6 would scare them much more.

I mean, I support their direction and efforts, I’m just doubtful they’ll manage a large movement.

This is a really sad time not to have large competitors. Could be at the least they move to Nintendo in protest - sadly I wouldn’t join that as I hate Nintendo for other reasons, and they’re not much better in terms of digital carts.

Are these the same fans willing to part with $100 for new releases? Not holding my breath lol.

This is akin to the "boycotts" people have done against gas stations for high fuel costs. It doesn't work. It's always like "on a Tuesday, don't buy gas"... but you weren't going to until Friday anyway. And then you buy it on Friday, the books balance exactly the same, and there is zero actual impact.

You want to impact Sony? Stop buying games on PS5. Not for a week. For this entire console generation.

This is so ridiculous.

1. I, personally, want discs - or at least real ownership - of games to continue. In the past I bought almost all my games used.
2. That doesn’t matter. Most people - even those who know the current trade-offs - would rather ‘buy’ digital games. Physical sales are a tiny fraction of game sales. With a purely financial head on: it’s going to cost Sony more to continue having them than to stop production. You can’t fight it (or, at least, the fight is unwinnable).

The only winnable fight here - and I still think it’s a long shot - is convincing governments to legislate to allow download of and resale of digital purchases.