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PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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So... Sony could, from a technical POV, block games which come on disc, too? It's just a tiny firmware update. And good luck playing GTA online or Diablo 4 with an offline PS to prevent updates. Or any game which needs a newer PS firmware.
The root issue seems to be that you are not root on your PS. And you don't trust Sony with that role.
At one point people decided that they needed that shiny new ps-only exclusive title regardless. And Sony knows that the majority doesn't care about control, as long as they don't take it away from them.
They actually just integrated the initial framework for this with the last major PS5 update.
They threw it in under the guise that it was a check to make sure that your downloaded games were legitimate, but they added but they added in a required 30-day timer that after 30 days it checks the license on a downloaded piece of software. And if your account doesn't have the license, or the system isn't online. It fails to work. This was originally expected to be a constant every 30 days thing, but at last minute they clarified that it was a one-time check to make sure that you didn't return the device under their return policy.
I have no doubt in my mind that they were originally intending on having this be in every 30 days requiring the PS5 to have to be online every 30 days in order for it to function, but decided to change it last minute when major media companies started reporting that the PS5 was going to officially require online