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Posted by Sky

- Today at 10:36:37

Those 45% still bought the PS3 ports of black ops 1&2 from the ps store

Posted by Ian Berry

- Today at 09:05:19

I refuse to buy Playstation 6, no disc format and talk at Tokyo Tech fair of a price tag in UK of £800 to £1,250 by Sony staff.

OMG, what we buying? Only games can be downloaded from Sony. A type of buy from us only domination.

I am 62, I have a Ps1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; I have over 300 games on disk, my memories and nostalgia are there, like a lot of fans, Sony are dumping us, not us them. Its total disrespect. I cant play my games on a console they will expect me to pay twice I paid for PS5....No!

Sony, reverse the decision or loose the dedicated following, who didnt go with XBox.

Posted by Sean. P. C

- Today at 04:45:44

It's no surprise. Sony, along with a good chunk of movie producers and game developers, have forgotten the golden rule of supply and demand - the customer is always right!
Because they have a world wide market now they think they can dictate to their customers instead, what those customers want and what they get.
Too greedy! They will not be the first big company to go belly up and I dare say not the last either. There js a limit to what people will put up with.

Posted by areamanplaysgame

- Today at 03:41:09

The decision to move to PC is not "puzzling" if you have actually thought about what you gain. Except for collectors, the issue here isn't really about the discs at all.

PC is an open platform where multiple game vendors compete. GOG sells mostly DRM-free games with the option to download an offline installer, meaning that you can quite literally keep and play your games forever. Steam doesn't have that, but it does have a huge library of games going back a couple decades, almost every one of which is still available today.

Contrast that with all-digital PlayStation 6. This is a tiny walled garden. It will certainly not have meaningful backwards compatibility with any games before the PS4 era. It will also have no backwards compatibility with PS4 and PS5 disc games. It is a completely closed platform and a completely vertical distribution system in which the hardware vendor controls 100% of software availability and software pricing at all times.

Posted by Just a guy

- Yesterday at 18:54:58

All you have to do is look at Take Two' one of the biggest publishers in the industry. They are not fans of PR, because games don't sell as well. In all honesty, about 0.1% of the entire player base is actually upset over a decision PC made in the 2000's when PC gaming almost died entirely....

Posted by Checkbuzz

- Yesterday at 17:46:07

Quote from: Yamaguchi on Yesterday at 17:01:12Already have. It seems to have been forever since good AAA games on PS anyway. The new stuff with woke social engineering doesn't do it for my family.

Xbox not doing much better. This is the end of an era of console gaming. All this new stuff is nothing more than a desperate claw at whatever of left of a dying market.

Lmao! Woke social engineering! Proper tinfoil hat comment that. Look out for the wokes, they're coming to get you! 🤣

I assume you want games to be socially engineered to your own preferences? Christian Nationalism perhaps? Or maybe fascism? You seem to be singing from their songbook.

Posted by indy0

- Yesterday at 17:44:50

The survey contains self-selecting bias, on a journal that publishes critical news stories about Sony.

Completely unscientific. Might as well make up numbers.

Posted by Silvy

- Yesterday at 17:37:45

Can we not use AI slop for the images on these articles? It's hardly responsible and reflects poorly on the site and its journalism standards.

Posted by Yamaguchi

- Yesterday at 17:01:12

Already have. It seems to have been forever since good AAA games on PS anyway. The new stuff with woke social engineering doesn't do it for my family.

Xbox not doing much better. This is the end of an era of console gaming. All this new stuff is nothing more than a desperate claw at whatever of left of a dying market.

Posted by Gallo123

- Yesterday at 14:11:21

End of the road for me Playstation. It's not even a question of just digital, they are making low effort with exclusives you care about so it's too easy to abandon the brand.

Posted by Hist

- Yesterday at 08:38:24

I use both, but I mainly buy games on gog where you actually own your games. You can download your installers and never update or open the site/launcher ever again, if that's what you want.
Every subscription service is just a scam whatever that would be... From video games to movies, music, cloud storage everything.
Physical media is important to keep platforms like Sony in check, their greed is unlimited nothing else, even compared to Xbox for example where you get their first party titles day one (don't get me wrong, is still a scam cause you pay for basically nothing but at least it offers some "value" compared to Sony's approach where you get their first party titles after 2 years or so if the game sells).
People just need to think and vote with their wallets, buy physical or digital but drm free, get a cheap nas, don't chase the FOMO these companies try to sell you and wait for price drops. Epic offers weekly free games, collect those play what you like while waiting. PC is just a superior platform because it gives you freedom, although sadly now that comes at superior price as well, it was much nicer before Altman f*cked the world and big tech followed him...

Posted by Nunya

- Yesterday at 06:45:04

I will NEVER buy a digital only console. I purchase games, I don't rent (license) them. Goodbye Playstation, it's been a great 30 year run.

Posted by Bat_Country

- Yesterday at 06:15:07

Quote from: Thatchdawg on Yesterday at 06:03:07I used to buy physical disks. But I'm poor. It's a lot easier to throw twenty bucks on your playstation account every paycheck, and then in 3 to 4 weeks, you have enough money to download a game rather than having to go to the store and paying eighty bucks outright just for a physical copy some people aren't rich to go in and buy a physical copy for 80 bucks right off the bat.

What you said makes no sense at all. You're spending the same amount of money whether you buy it immediately in person, or if you save $20 per week for a month while waiting to buy the digital version... I don't know what the point of saying any of that was. You're doing the exact same thing in either scenario, the price isn't going down on way or the other.

It's a lot easier to wait (still paying $80) than to go in person and buy it immediately??? None of it makes any sense.

Posted by Thatchdawg

- Yesterday at 06:03:07

I used to buy physical disks. But I'm poor. It's a lot easier to throw twenty bucks on your playstation account every paycheck, and then in 3 to 4 weeks, you have enough money to download a game rather than having to go to the store and paying eighty bucks outright just for a physical copy some people aren't rich to go in and buy a physical copy for 80 bucks right off the bat.

Posted by NovemberRain

- Yesterday at 01:58:32

There's more than a few digital games that you can either no longer access or play when they are removed from the store. Physical media disks while somewhat antiquated still serve a purpose as a physical backup. Not to mention I also use the disk drive to watch blue rays and DVDs streaming services are more like utility bills you have to pay monthly to keep them up where as DVDs can be used even when the internet is down. I'll never buy a digital only console and I never have it just screams cheap .. I still very much watch blue rays and DVDs of movies you wouldn't normally be able to find without renting or purchasing it who knows what will become of the platform in 30 years if your still going to be able to access your content. Just over the 10 years I've lost access to more than a few games that were purchased digitally from Amazon for example.

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