Sony made a fucking Xbox One. Exactly the version that made the internet crucify Microsoft. This is incredible.

Ah so in 25 years when I pull out my PS5 it'll be useless cool cool cool

Literally the kind of bullshit that Sony mocked Xbox for trying with the Xbox One when it and the PS4 came out. When legitimate concerns were brought up that some gamers were not able to connect their device to the internet regularly, for instance if they are in the military deployed overseas or on ships and play games on their downtime, or if they simply lose service for some time for financial issues, or if they have metered connections that they depend on for work, etc. they were told to just buy an older Xbox. Sony gave them hell in interviews after that. Here we are 13 years later, and Sony is busy retroactively doing that dame shit. Smh

Physical media collectors proven correct once more.

It's amazing how all of my Genesis, Playstation 1, and Dreamcast games still work, as will work as long as I have the game and console and they are in good condition. But that isn't guaranteed for a game I buy next week.

Lmao. My friend doesn't have the money to pay for internet for months now. He does have a lot of games for his playstation. I went over and we had to hotspot trough my phone to be able to play GTA5 singleplayer.

Absolutely horrid. This kind of BS should fall under StopKillingGames where singleplayer games should be able to be played without an internet connection.

Perfect timing for the Steam Machine to come back. Shame about the ... everything else going on.

I recently bought a Ebook from Bookshop.org thinking I could download and transfer it to my cracked Kindle and to support the author only to find out it is DRM locked and can only be read on their specific apps, so now I am asking for a refund and meanwhile downloaded a copy of the book throught other legal sources and enjoying it, all these lockin systems just screw over the paying customers and incentivize sailing the high seas, brain dead greedy pigs will dig their own grave and then pass the blame to others

This is exactly the kind of crap So y lives to pull, and why after my PS4's disc drive died (and I found out they're paired to the motherboard and can't just be replaced) I stopped buying any more games, let Plus lapse, and repurchased everything on PC.

They all run better and can be modded there anyway. Fuck you Sony.

with every new console release, I'm more content with my PC

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”

Welp, looks like it’s time to check out some of those PS4 hacks, eh? Ahoy, ahoy.

Thanks for the warning. They don't want me to buy a PS, I get it.

Further reinforcing my decision to hard dump Sony after the PS4.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing*

Remember when they clowned on Xbox for this

Just like the original plan for Xbox One!

People gotta stop buying Playstations, they keep doing dumb stuff.

Consoles are a closed off wasteland

Won’t buy digital. Won’t buy key cards. Won’t buy blank disks.

FWIW according to an insider, this is a bug. People have been saying this menu is for PS+ games that expire when your subscription runs out.

Incredibly stupid that Sony isn't responding about this at all though.

Steal video games until these asshats change course

Ah yes, the BlizzActivision gambit. Best countered by selling your PlayStation and getting a PC.

/me *Smugly looks on after having boycotted Sony for over 2 decades*

Haven't turned on my ps5 since 22. Don't plan on it. But when I do, it won't be connected to the internet.

Hopefully some easy hacking methods will be available by then.

Shit. I was going to say, maybe I could not update (I haven't in a while) and keep my console offline forever.

But then I remembered that thanks to the piss poor storage capacity of that console half my games must be unistalled right now.

First Sony console I ever bought. After that stunt, also last.

Oh, no, I hope nobody knows how to fake a NIST time server and set the clock back to before it expired, that would be awful.

Huh, I vaguely recall micro$lop wanting something similar with their XB1, back in 2013.

WTF

Kids who aren't allowed to play during the school term are gonna log on their holidays to a very bad surprise

This was already sort of a problem I think because I booted up my PS3 earlier this year and my Playstation account credentials didn't work because of some new account verification bullshit, and I couldn't play my PS Store digital games, only discs.

So, exactly what they did with the Xbox One. Pre release everyone was so angry at the console having an online dependency, even for offline stuff, that they made a last-minute change and reduced it to mandatory check-ins.