i was referring to physical games as a whole and not necessarily tied to Playstation games or their discs.

They’ve been transitioning this specific manufacturing division since 2024. It can’t be a “double down” because they’re not going to revert two years of already re-trained staff and re-purposed equipment because of online forum talk.

Messages to shareholders like this is pretty standard. They’re basically saying:

• decision is final
• components manufacturing is more lucrative than disc manufacturing
• we will distribute our IP

So they’re hedging their bets on what their future could be. If they lose out on gaming they’ll make back on microlenses.

Sony didn’t really “double down”. The decision to wind down their physical games category was made years ago. Everything after the initial public announcement is to manage public relations.

Not sure many outside Japan realise but Sony are a conglomerate that dip their fingers into unrelated industries. This to them is clearly just a line through a smaller category on the balance sheet.

There’s a discussion to be had about ownership and physical games but i think that market is going to re-emerge in the future in perhaps a more bespoke way, like the resurgence of music vinyls.

To me, Sony seems to be interested in just managing the distribution of IP opposed to “gaming” itself. They’re not true custodians in that space or if they were, then they’re not now.

no. we have other issues here.

it’s not a test bro just go watch it

OpenAI is trying to artificially plump themselves up before going for IPO. They “attacked” a vendor that dispenses LLM and LLM-adjacent products that are similarly aligned with OpenAI’s goals. It almost seems like it was a coordinated event to generate a sense of mystique around their premier models (à la Anthropic with Mythos).

pretty sure the original devs from disco elysium had split years ago from za/um. the studio is now just a name.

thats right, the average ‘gamer’ is casual. they’ll purchase a couple games per year and maybe a handful more on special.

gaming itself is a leisure activity so when other aspects of life starts getting expensive or free time is reduced then what gets dropped first is an overpriced subscription service.

the bowel mover diet

literally said at the conference last week that we don’t need people we need more agents to get rid of the people.

this cunt is high off his own supply and is barely held accountable for the contradictions he makes

starbucks has already come back to australia but not using their original aggressive expansion strategy.

i think it’s important to distinguish the difference between being critical of a subject (e.g. being judgemental) and thinking critically for oneself.

No doubt your father has a reactionary response to media because the ecosystem demands it from their audience and he now likely sits in a susceptible demographic.

Something to consider is if your father is starting to experience a cognitive decline (e.g dementia). How physically active is he? Does he have personal interests or hobbies that give him continued purpose? These play a part in how he responds to his environment and perhaps why you’ve noticed a trend among the elderly and maybe even within your own family.

if we’re assuming that they can actually achieve what they’re saying (and not doing a pump and dump) the market would have already shifted infrastructure-wise and the cost to setup would have increased.

We’d be presuming that Allbirds owns their warehousing space. For all I know they could be drop-shipping from third-party warehousing.

the 00’s

and also an allegory for transitioning

edit: there’s a reason why the wachowski brothers are no longer brothers