For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
Nope. PCs haven’t had physical games for well over a decade. Even “physical” games like Battlefield 1 just had a code in them, and that was 2016, a decade ago now. Discs were going away for PC games by the early 10s. I’ve been surprised that consoles held out for as long as they did, considering the always online stuff, the updates, seasonal DLC, DRM, etc. I miss when games were feature complete, like Pokemon Emerald or the early Sonic franchise.
I would like to be able to legally resell my digital games that I don’t want anymore.
Its a dumb ask. I bought the Playstation to play it when I have the time. I think way more people would be on board if it was a ps store blackout. No MTC, no purchases, nothing. Easy. Doable. Asking people to ignore the $600 widget they already bought and use? Pretty unreasonable.
No.
- most people don’t know about it
- many actual children won’t care
- many “gamers” are little better than children
or the main point, modern games can’t really fit on physical media.
Discs is probably not the future but we could go back to cartridges with solid-state storage and get more than enough for a large game. It doesn’t have to be particularly compact so I assume companies could save money on not opting for the most state of the art densest drives
I suppose. But I remember old games came on multiple disks.
I also think that chasing every higher graphics has reached diminishing returns. Style counts for more than fidelity, I think.
No. Convenience always wins. Same reason people decided streaming is better than owning.
Some percent of those upset and boycotting will simply give it up. These things have about a 2-4 week lifespan. Then they’ll just miss their PlayStation and everything will be over, except they’ll own even less.
And the same thing that could also work in Win365’s favor against PCs should it get a consumer tier.
Nope.
No. Its that simple.
People will keep using the playstation, people will keep playing games, buying shit etc. Its wishful thinking that the boycott will do anything other the slightly lower overall numbers. The equivalent of a normal workday.
The disk battle is the wrong one to fight.
The correct battle is that buying=owning not leasing.
If there’s an actual boycott - yes it will work. Will EVERYONE refuse to buy their products?
Yeah… right.
I think people underestimate the power of collective action. People have been underplaying the strengths of these actions in online discourse to the point where I wonder if its coordinated.
Being loud and boycotting does work. And even if it doesn’t why support anti consumer practices.
All I know is I’m not buying shit from them again.
Yes, the even more powerful way of protesting: not giving a shit.
No.
People already buy digital games at greater rates for years, plus most digital games havent been the full game for a while now. Some of them are literally just download codes now.
Also, boycotts and protests almost never work.
The lack of affordability in the console space will do more. I’d ballpark 95% of playstation purchasers have no idea about Sony’s announcement. And when it finally happens, they’ll just do whatever they need to do to make the game run. But if they just can’t justify the money it takes to do what they need to do, then sony won’t get the money, and they’ll notice.
But no, playstation won’t notice the blip of people who refuse to purchase for long-term ownership reasons.
If I know gamers, it will be just as effective as the Modern Warfare 2 PC boycott back in the day
The boycott wont do anything now but I think once they actually stop releasing physical games a lot of people will move to switch to continue collecting, or to PC since it’s more convenient for digital games. If it’s enough to make them change course, I don’t know, but I sure hope so.
Nope, nobody really cares about physical media or owning anything anymore
