Why are people still buying shit from Sony? It would be less work to just flush your cash directly down the shitter.
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Right? I'm still pissed off about the PS3. I owned a PS1 and a PS2. PS3 launched and before I could save up enough money, two awesome features that the PS3 launched with they pulled support for. At launch you could boot to linux and you could play PS2 games. They disabled both before I could buy one. Huge class action lawsuit if I remember correctly. But they keep pulling the same shit.
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This only reinforces the reasons why I bought a PC for gaming instead of a console.
Time to double down on retro gaming and buying second hand. Industry wants to burn I say let it.
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Nintendo winning this console generation with the Switch 2 was not on my bingo card.
My MSPaint skills aren't what they used to be, but imagine a console version of this
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The gonna release PS6 without any physical media option, don't they? Their PS5 digital edition was only a market test.
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Yea the era of giving the "big 3" any of my money
Really scary to see where the industry is headed! I've started purchasing games on GOG whenever possible so as to put my money towards an actually good source in the industry but it doesn't feel like enough.
These companies are constantly pushing the boundaries of what they can get away with and it feels like we just gotta take it at this point.
I especially feel bad for the console gamers as they have very little options to get around this and switching to PC is unfortunately more expensive than ever.
Now that PC gaming is at feature parity with console gaming, I think it's particularly important to tell people how available DRM-free gaming is. No, it's not going to be common in the AAA segment of your library, but it's a lot of games. And you'll never have to worry about it being pulled from your library.
The price of hardware is a pain point for sure, but if you're able to see past that, you'll be spending less over a generation on PC than you would on a console between not having to pay for online service, dramatically cheaper gamepad/accessory options, and a massive library of quality games at $30 or less.
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I was an XBox guy, and didn't get into Playstation at all. But it was always clear that they were excellent consoles. At a certain income level back in the day, you'd get an XBox or a Playstation, but not both. If you had a smidgen more money to spend, Nintendo had you covered.
I have no emotional fealty to Playstation in any way, but what a shame to see all three formerly awesome systems now competing to see who can enshitify more effectively.
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Bye PlayStation. It’s been a good run, but you’re dead to me now.
This is Sony though, they care so much about playstation customers they even went to the effort of updating the ps3 firmware in March this year to improve things for their customers.
I mean it would be crazy to suggest they would do that for a console they discontinued a decade ago just to try and fuck with people who have the temerity to run custom firmware on hardware they bought and paid for 20 years ago....
Sony business logic is fucked.
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The removal of physical games isn't that big of a deal to me as someone who mostly plays on PC, and the only physical PC games I've bought in the last decade and a half were touhou games I imported off Yahoo auctions.
Honesty I wonder why that actually became so normalized on PC while it didn't on consoles. I'm sure Steam has a big role in it.
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I guess we're never gonna get to see that super futuristic PS9 that was envisioned back in that old PS2 commercial.
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Even with the high prices you can still build a decent AM4 based PC and play titles bought on GOG which is DRM free. If you install Linux you all get one of the best is for free. If you want to go further you can emulate the heck of old consoles and old PC games and have tons of fun. You could also sail the high seas for content that has DRM and/or is very expensive. Don't forget. If you don't own what you buy the piracy is ethical and justified. After akk, piracy is mostly a service problem and when you enshitify a service you end up FAFO.