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Really what needs to happen is a few companies consolidate regional dev talent and become software companies.
If I was sony I'd bet on steamos. Nintendo would be in the best position if their games weren't locked to their systems. Because their wheel house is low spec games that could run on anything.
I bought every PlayStation ever released. I will not be buying this one. Consoles are supposed to get cheaper over time. The gaming sector is going to go tits up and I hope it does.
plus people have prioritize money to elsewhere like basic needs, instead of luxury needs.
Consoles were always a walled garden from the very start, very purposefully so, and those things tend to squeeze customers once captured with higher prices and, sooner or later, fully enshittify.
So when consoles originally appeared I just kept gaming on the PC because it was an open platform and the only console I ever had was a WII (the original one) because their controller was at the time innovative, and honestly it wasn't really worth it.
Then, specifically for the PlayStation there's Sony, who have a long track record of anti-consumer actions that started when their leadership stopped coming from the Engineering Division and started coming from their Media Division (after they bought a Movie studio in the US), from their electronics becoming locked down and restrictive for users (they're the ones who came up with Blu-Ray, which was way more locked down to block copying than DVDs were) to the infamous shipping of music CDs with rootkits (the "Sony Rootkit" scandal)
So this increasing enshittification of the PlayStation isn't at all surprising and suspect it will get even worse than this.
Ultimately I think the PlayStation platform will end up dying.
Console really is hitting checklist of media subscription like apple
They can do all this because people keep giving them money.
Too many people make it about brand identity than simply playing games.
They're also shutting down PS3 and PSVita store access, to add insult to injury.
What? Rip to my jailbroken Vita that could download psn games I guess.
At some point it doesnt make much sense to support almost dead infrastructure. Probably wasnt making them money anymore.
I mean look at the 3DS, Wii and Wii U...They closed way earlier than Sony. ^(Which is a bad thing done by Nintendo.)
Sure, but that's why they should be required to maintain it by law, or to provide some other mechanism for long term access.
To reduce costs on printing and to reflect Sony's vision, they are dropping the L from the name of the console.
They're not dropping it, they're hoping you take it.
But leave them with the L.
This is what happens when their only competitor is a mindless Microslop.
Nintendo carved out their niche and Sony has no chance against them in that market after abandoning AAA and AA single player games in favor of trash service games.
as long as people buy the mainline games like pokemon, and some other well know IP mario and friends,,,etc. nintendo isnt going to lose customers, eventhough some of them have become slop over the years.
Nintendo makes good AA and AAA games just like they did decades ago.
They don’t believe in discounts or quality analog sticks but their game design is still solid.
Nintendo also doesn’t do mass layoffs. Nintendo provides lifetime employment. Hence why they have released high quality games for decades, because the new generation of devs gets the time to grow and the old generation stays to pass down their knowledge to the next generation.
Nintendo Kyoto is know as a very good employer in Japan.
The entire reason I've ever bought consoles and games was because I could get used games at a bargain and also sell my old consoles and game collections when I'm done with them. I can't imagine that I'm the only person who looked at it this way.
Now console producers pull shit like this when they can't even claim to be more user friendly than PC because SteamOS is a real competitor.
Well I guess it was good while it lasted, at least until the last few years when greed fully took over. Microsoft is already on it's last leg and Sony and Nintendo are going to follow eventually.
Playstation customer since my first job at McDonalds let me buy the original first model PSX, all the way through the PS5
fuuuuuuuuck you Sony. I've got a PC and you can eat 10 tons of my shit right now with this and your cancellation of PC support. We'll see who wins.
Yeah, that’s the end of PlayStation for me. Hopefully someone else will come out with something decent.
Meh, I’m done with consoles. The exclusives will come to emulators eventually, and there will be plenty of PC games in the meantime.
definitely end of an era.
I'm not buying a console without physical media.
Sony can kill the second hand market if they want, but that was the last thing that differentiated them from Steam. Good bye Playstation, i'll remember you fondly.
So, this means mandatory proprietary hardware just to play the four or five true permanent exclusives that will be on the PS6 throughout its entire lifetime, given that everything else will eventually come to PC, and you don't actually own any of your digital content, meaning that they can revoke your access to your purchases without notice at any point if they choose to do so.
People will still buy it though, that's the saddest part.
It's like corporations don't know how to do anything but enshittify anymore
They are also lobbying to make hosting your own videogame server illegal: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/esa-bafflingly-declares-private-minecraft-servers-illegal-in-stop-killing-games-hearing-we-consider-it-piracy-we-have-lawsuits/
Sony is part of ESA.
Bet the Sony fanboys wish they didn’t make so much fun of the Xbox one’s digital plans now. Xbox’s digital plan had:
PlayStation buyers will definitely not get the first 2, and Sony will likely prevent the third.
“Arrogant sony” is well and truly back.
It warms my heart to see that EVERY comment on Sony's blog post about it is negative. Hope the decision ends up biting Sony in the ass, but even if not, at least people weren't silent about it.
EDIT: and they're being yelled at everywhere else on the internet that people can post as well. Good.