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Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles
(blog.playstation.com)
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The last reason to own a console just died.
Fuck you Sony. Fuck valve too, completely destroyed ownership of games.
There are still DRM-free games. Call it just buying a license if you want, but they can't be taken away from you.
Nobody is buying my old copies of games from gog.
Nobody bought my old copy of Uncharted 4 either. I had to give it away for free.
I literally sold mine a month after release when I finished for something like 85% of new on Amazon.
Consoles are by a long shot the cheapest way to play games unless you want a billion throughs. This isn't some imaginary scenario. The are still rental services for discs. But yeah keep on simping for corpos because you aren't clever enough to see the difference.
DRM-free works for that use case when sales go deep enough. Then, if you decide it's not something you want to keep forever, you're not out of any more money than that 15% you got back. I thought I wanted to keep Uncharted 4 for a while, and then it got a PC version. By the time I wanted to get rid of it a handful of years ago, it was worth a few dollars at most, and I got no bites for it. These things lose their value quite quickly. As far as ownership goes, DRM-free works better when you don't plan on selling, because you can freely copy it and back it up long after the degradation of the medium it's stored on.
Consoles are the cheapest way to play games until one line crosses another line. They have subscription fees for online; they have less competition so the sales aren't as good; they have smaller libraries; their convenience has diminished and their entry prices have risen; there are mandatory costs on things like peripherals and getting higher frame rates on your back catalogue; etc. In general, the more games you play, the less likely it is you're saving money on consoles. I feel for you having lost your use case, but there's a reason I'm personally okay with losing physical, and it's not because I'm okay with losing ownership.
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I'm okay with no physical on PC, because there are ways to maintain control over your games, whether legal or not.
You can't sell them for money.
That is true. However, you can acquire most of them for no money.
Yes, and that's relevant because you can't in a walled garden.