Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49078916
The future of gaming is budget pc builds and piracy.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Can't wait for the servers to crash cuz everyone tries downloading their copy of the game at the same time lol
Steam has been fine with this for years.
Didn't Silksong crash those servers less than a year ago from everyone downloading it? You think GTA 6 will be LESS popular?
If people buy GTA 6 without a disk, particularly after Sony just deleted people's purchased movies without a refund, then they deserve whatever fate awaits them.
let them crash and burn.
It's downstream of a bunch of retail game shops - GameStop, Newegg, Toys'R'Us, RadioShack - all going tits up over the last ten years. Giving up on physical media isn't some Machiavellian business play. It's a response to their historical vendors dying out.
Unless Sony starts opening up their own mall kiosks, they won't have anywhere to sell physical copies outside Amazon or Walmart. And there's a reason you don't want these two to be your primary retail pipeline.
A classic
Indeed but I still hate when people refer to things from the 2010s as classic/retro/vintage.
It's 2060
All consoles are digital-only, legally-required to verify your identity, and locked-down
But Linux still exists! In adapting, it's now hyper-optimized for thin-client corporate workstation terminals, the only computers still made. Distributions are shared via illegal mesh networks or person-to-person on physical media
Gamers can simulate operating a "grocery store", something that used to exist back before the States collapsed
As there is no way for the NSA/CIA/FBI/PTA to monitor what's on a flash drive in your pocket, such physical media will be made illegal. Possession of physical computer storage media that is not permanently connected to the internet will be grounds for arrest and reeducation.
As there is no way for the NSA/CIA/FBI/PTA to monitor what’s on a flash drive in your pocket, such physical media will be made illegal.
I'm old enough to remember when it was impossible to get your hands on a CD-Burner, because the industry didn't want people to use discs with 650MB capacity to store and transfer files between systems. I suppose we could see some kind of return to non-writeable media, but I'm not holding my breath. Data transfer is the entire backbone of the modern internet. If anything, flash drives will simply go out of fashion because we'll have even more data-dense and rapid transfer alternatives in another five or ten years.
legally-required to verify your identity
UK has pushing that stuff for over a year.
Solution: Don't buy a PS6. Fuck Sony.
Okay, but how will I get the Most Cutting Of Cutting Edge Graphis with Ray Dicking And Light Emulsifying and Video To Smell Technology?!
Everything that isn't on 64k resolution video is basically unplayable.
Don't forget fucking Secure Boot! Locked me out of one of my favorite games, Battlefield 1, all in the name of "anti-cheat"!
Fuck that noise
Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, "iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha" - player that bought fifa every year for the full price
people never change
People do change. But they have to start from somewhere.
You can convince a 20 year old on a budget not to buy a PS6 by showing them a PC rig at 1/4 the cost with a better catalog. But you're not going to convince an 8 year old who wants parents to buy it because a guy in a TMNT costume did a TikTok dance telling him to buy it. That's just 8 year olds for you.
I don't understand how anyone that plays online games would buy a PS or an Xbox. Paid online is so dumb.
Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.
$80 is 2026 prices. It is going to be $100 at least.
Literally, the $80 is the most unrealistic thing in that post.
Nah, owning a PlayStation
It's been 90$ for a long time in Canada and being bumped to 120$ ish, its painful
They each cost $80. Yeah you wish they were so cheap...
If PS goes all digital and Xbox follows with their closed ecosystem, $100 is the minimum they will charge.
You have 4 in your library, but only 1 is installed; it's Call of Duty. Since there's no need for physical media anymore, the footprint of games has ballooned to the point where if you want to install CoD, it's going to cost you 2TB of storage. They threw in 8k textures just for the 0.0001% of players that actually have an 8k TV, and there are a lot of textures since the Big Chungus update which introduced 255 different coloured Chungus textures for every weapon and weapon attachment combination in the game.
They also animated each one in a strange uncompressed video format instead of using effects over them. They are not optional, even though 95% are from optional dlcs you don't own.
The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.
You can buy the premium subscription to ensure that feature remains disabled.
5 bucks per joystick calibration. 8 for both.
The left comes misaligned out of the box, the right drifts after two weeks.
It's 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.
The SWAT team comes to your house and smashes them all.
You're also old enough to schedule your first colonoscopy.
Everyone is old enough to schedule one if you make up a convincing enough reason. I just had my 3rd one this year!
I tried! Turns out I get to wait until I'm 45. Having a great-aunt and great-grandma with colon cancer isn't enough. The great aunt died in her 30s of colon cancer, iirc.
Don't forget that you paid a %50 deposit to reserve/pre-register your "copy" of a digital game
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