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@Alpha_Pulse Like keeping physical games around and making sure people can’t lose digital purchases?

@themightyant @get2sammyb Even with the EU law, it’s still Sony being bad at communication. It’s insane that you can lose your games like that, and Sony should be doing more to prevent it. TBH, if they really can’t, and maybe fair enough they can’t, they should just put the EU on blast for it. This l actually might be a reasonable case for Sony to play victim (not in a bad sense) alongside its customers.

This felt like a very intentional design choice I think got GTA4 and RDR2 very well. I don’t think this is good news. Having sprint/run not be L3 needs to happen far more often. Many old games are better for it. It’s good for COD, sure, but one size does not fit all.

@Ainu20 Some people prefer wielding power because they want to shape the world. You never know. If they’re confident enough that they will win the game of chicken, they also might not feel threatened by going for it.

Sony had been making tons of mistakes and aren’t in a position of strength with component prices. Xbox could easily be wanting to take an easy W after all their struggles.
A publisher could also totally be doing this. Not every company is run by soulless spreadsheets.
I don’t know why this site, which should be run by enthusiasts, constantly shills for their hobby getting worse. The complete lack of being personally unhappy from your end with this frankly makes no sense whatsoever.

Can we get another rereview?

I’m doing the week. I think Sony needs to realize raising prices and alienating a good part of the core audience is a very bad idea. They don’t have the leverage to be doing this. They’re made constant bad spreadsheet decisions that lost money in reality even through “from a business perspective” it “made sense”.
I do want to use what I paid for though, and my discs, so I will be turning it on again after the week. It might be more than I thought, the survey here had more people doing it than I expected.

PS6 will go over poorly. PS5 will take forever to stop getting games, probably longer than the PS4, killing physical, first party so mishandled, and raising prices. Sony isn’t in a spot to tick people off and they do it anyway.

@ShadowRJ He’s seeking a big single player game here, why would you need to register online for it anyway?

@get2sammyb I think doom and gloom is the last accusation anyone is having right now. We could use more form you guys I think lol.

@themcnoisy I’ve bought a number of digital games too, so I have contributed somewhat, but I also buy a good number of physical too. To be honest, I don’t like to assume companies pay people off normally, but it feels like Sony is paying a lot of outlets off to try and demoralize people (another decision that can have secondary effects). So many twisted statistics on the sales. It feels very unnatural that life long enthusiasts who run these websites are just going to “hard truth, inevitable” instead of trying to push back.
I’m really not convinced Xbox announcing they’ll keep physical won’t change Sony’s mind.

@add286 Yet we have blu-rays and CDs easily available to buy that make money because there’s a market for them that’s catered to.

@Hylian-Likely Bingo. The article is twisting numbers. Not to mention it sales, not money from the sales. Old digital games on sale won’t run for nearly as much as a new copy of Resi physical further twisting numbers.

Terrible reporting. That means 20% of sales are physical on console. And what would they be for games that are les than two years old? They’re probably be up to 35-45%. This article is so disingenuous and twisting the numbers without a real breakdown it’s not even funny

This is also a matter of secondary effects. Reducing what makes people passionate can also make less fans be created and reduce current passions of fans which drive spending. There are lots of things that can go wrong that don’t exist on a spreadsheet.

@Psnfanboy79 I’ll explain to for you. Greed and a total monopoly on the exact prices the games are sold at with no ability to buy secondhand so consumers have less options.

@Rezium I’d also point out this disparity would also include small digital only games. If I buy a $10-20 digital game that was never gonna get physical, should that really be apart of the conversation with the physical rates? I want to see the difference with only games that are sold physically,

@ButteredCrumpet Considering they lost what seems half or more of their games this gen on insane nonsensical live service bets for every IP and then shut down otherwise profitable studios because they told them to work on an obviously bad project, I would not bank on them actually knowing what they’re doing. The leadership seems to lack of basic gut sense about how reality actually works Vs what a spreadsheet detached from real life says.

There’s still a lot of market for physical games. Sony needs to backtrack.

They should just make it a DLC pack. There’s lot of cool user-made missions that should be kept and preserved.

This is bad. This is just censorship. This is just saying “people might find it offensive, so we’re neutering the story to avoid a little offense”.

I really want to want this, but the lack of high/low profile really makes the remake unfaithful to me. Jogging as opposed to walking by default is a huge difference in how the games plays, and having played Mirage, not for the better. I’m very disappointed they couldn’t even offer normal AC controls after touting a faithful remakes.

@johnedwin This would be good. Even if it only stated that if physical wasn’t a real option, you own a digital listen and can sell if you can’t buy a physical copy u you can sell. That would make the companies scramble to offer physical.

@UltimateOtaku91 This will be good for us regardless. I don’t care if it adds to the cost, Sony needs the pressure it’ll be better Xbox consumers.

I hope we get a choice later in the game. This one should let you choose your loyalties towards the end.

@IllusiveMan Yep, some people seem to feel a bit powerless so they have talk about how actually it’s a good thing.

@UltimateOtaku91 I really hope Xbox does this and comes up with some great exclusive games. Sony needs competition and ASAP.

This is awful news. We went from winning E3 by still having used games to getting rid of physical games. Awful awful news. This also gives total control over pricing and hurts physical stores. I’m questioning if I’ll even want a PS6 now. Not to mention this has ramifications for backwards compatibility for all my discs.

Sony needs to reverse this. This beyond bad news for consumers. Watch your sales be less and less generous over time while you’re told it’s “the natural evolution”.

@Dogbreath it’s subsidizing it? Are you that naive? The game will makes billions at just $70 (let alone $80) no add ons. It’s not subsidizing anything, it’s gouging you. Cars and other things are physical goods, taking stuff out reduces the price to make the good. Removing shops does not reduce the cost of anything in a piece of software.

Wow, Rockstar is just plain scummy right now.

@Bingoboyop Yeah, GTA6 seems like a disaster for the industry in terms of practices.

It wasn’t that hard. That’s a bad decision. Not everything should be made easy like that. You might just not be bake to 100% everything.
Or how about this, it should only be nerfed in easy mode.

@AdamNovice To be fair, COD was still a respectable series when black ops 1 came out. Black Ops 2 was probably the last time it was such or the start of the series going downhill.

@ThroughTheIris56 Maybe they’re taking their time on it since 5 is still selling millions of copies each year. I do want 6 soon though.

The story is getting a conclusion this long after? So the game was that blatantly unfinished at launch?

@DennisReynolds This makes sense. It’s not like CDPR is totally honest as CyberPunk showed. Also, BG3 got praised for free stuff being added when it was the game actually having an end instead of abruptly all of sudden feeling extra unfinished. In their case I think they didn’t have it ready, but they got so much praise for real releasing a blatantly unfinished game then partially finishing it.

Getting to BG3’s end and finding it just outright missing after “17,000 endings leaked, oh no” along with many other obvious half baked things at the end ruined the game for me.
BG3 was a disaster for the industry in that it encouraged and praised devs for awful behavior and lying.

@wildcat_kickz New stuff you need to restart the game for feels like you’re punished for playing early sometimes too. I’m worse off with the experience for paying more essentially.

I feel like the main game needs an overhaul more than a Dark Arisen. It felt like they had a lot of ambition with the systems and wanted to make it a life sim RPG almost, but then didn’t have time to actually make all immersive elements. Many cool sounding things feel unfinished in the game.

I want Ninja Gaiden 4 once I play 1&2, same for Hellblade. Others are clearly games they made uglier on purpose and others I just don’t care about.

I feel like VR games out of VR aren’t gonna do great. These games were very much meant for VR. Some studios leaving it may also find they now no longer stand out in the market too.

I’m not planning on GTA, but this is so overdue that I’m definitely getting this.

@Sonofken It really doesn’t take much does it?

Yeah, Dominoes won here. The response just feels soulless while the original is fun.

@BentIeyma It’s more given that a game might just skip the Switch 2 if need be. There’s no other console it’s awkwardly tethered to.

Let the Series S die. It was always a mistake that’s probably held back multiple games in ways we never hear about.

@AdamNovice I think the general with first party lull dulled excitement in general. I also think there could be something missing from a lack of proper press conferences. It’s a time when everyone went to get excited for new games. An excitement missing from small social media posts.

As an example, I got Pragmata day-one and was excited since I saw the mysterious teaser so many years ago. That announcement would have not generated excitement from me if it was in the past few years. I really think we should bring PS Experience and E3 back as live events.

They’re barely hanging onto enough good old decisions to not be an Xbox One in terms of first party. Barely.

As long as I can keep my normal game waiting screen, which many are designed well, optional modes that keep that way are fine. If mandatory, heck no.

They shut down devs for Sony’s mistakes, Bungie had LoU MP shut down which might have been a mistake. Sony has destroyed their output this gen by chasing live service phantoms and otherwise trend chasing with no desire to set any trends. Awful management. If they keeps up they’ll be MS levels of abysmal.

@SMJ It’s less about the costumes themselves and more about disliking the developer for whatever reason or not.