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And nothing of value was lost

1 FPS screenshots? No way I'm buying that ***** game!!!

@Oram77 you mean when the PlayStation 2 became the most popular console ever thanks in large part to it being a great, budget friendly DVD player?

Yeah, I remember.

Big news for fans of shooters where the shooting is the worst part of the game

@RobN you are correct, this project only appeals to a very small group of people who play these games back then. Which is fine, not every game is for every player.

OSW Review reference?

@Jireland92 Nintendo published Gaia outside of Japan so they presumably have the rights

Physical, nice. Now I can rent it, beat it and send it away

@NotSmartEnough the device you posted this comment with almost certainly contains one component manufactured in a country with a terrible human rights record. If you're going to play that card, you better check your own hand first, bro.

Grain of sand goes missing in the desert, let's see if the scorpion notices.

@Hoff fps, PSSR2... how about whether or not the game is actually fun to play? Or do you care more about tech specs than playing?

@ShadowRJ people today look for any and every reason to NOT play games.

@SBBuds wait, you're telling me a miniscule minority of a huge group doing something has had no impact at all? Shocking. This is like people who boycott Walmart or Amazon for a day. It means nothing.

@GamingGod the bank owns your house until you pay off the mortgage, and that land you think you own that it sits on? The Government can take that if they really want to.

@Oram77 it'll be on their YouTube page 24 hours later.

@Rezium yeah, because you can't wait 24 hours to see a video game in motion, they deserve to be victims of illegal actions.

This gaming community is a complete joke sometimes (almost all the time)

There is a simple solution to this problem: get off social media, especially X, which is even more of a troll farm, bad-natured cesspool than it was before Elon bought it. Problem solved. If you really cared about your mental health, you'd stay off social media.

It's a shame the box collectors are going to miss out on this digital only game.

@mattitudemf I play most of my Steam Deck games docked at 1080p. I also don't play current, AAA games on it because I have a PS5 for that purpose

@mattitudemf is the novelty of playing in a different room worth the price + reduced screen + input lag?

@naruball I have no need to pay several hundred dollars just to be able to play my PS5 on the toilet on a small screen with input lag
I would rather play how it's intended, on my giant 4K TV.

Game streaming is still hot garbage, I'm good with using my Steam Deck as intended: a PS2 emulator

@arto uhhhhhh. There are fewer copies in stores because they sell fewer copies. I can't believe this needs to be explained.

@Jswift56 it will almost certainly be featured on Netflix's YouTube page. For free.

@dskatter so unappealing it will almost certainly be the biggest Day 1 entertainment launch in history.

@Alpine so because you personally don't have Netflix (325 million people do), it's a daft decision? Oh man, I'm sorry that the world doesn't cater to you and you alone.

@Jmatt_021 it is going to be the biggest Day 1 entertainment launch of anything ever. Don't let the box collectors here tell you otherwise, they live in an extremely small bubble.

@get2sammyb I know right? Only 325 million people will be able to see it.

@arto but wait, box collectors say the digital numbers are inflated by all the cheap games always on sale. I thought consumers were supposed to be paying more?

Answer this question: if physical games are so important, why has every retailer who has previously supported and stocked them scaled back significantly this generation? This is the question that box collectors refuse to answer. Retailers like Target and Best Buy stock the products people want. Why don't they stock as many physical games as before?

@lexilogo or...you can look at every major retailers physical media selection and see that it has dwindled significantly this generation, to the point that Best Buy and Target barely stock physical media anymore. But I suppose those retailers also have some secret scheme to hold back physical media too?

@datamonkey publishers are in the business of selling games, not selling boxes.

@arto these are massive companies with stockholders. They answer to them and do what is best for business.

Funny how not a single big publisher has come out against this move. Why? Because it's the way their business is moving. You box collectors can cry all you want, it doesn't change reality.

Uh oh the box collectors are going to be mad at Capcom now!

@kuu_nousee I rent the vast majority of my games because I care more about playing than collecting boxes.

The comments in here just go to show how out of touch this mob is when it comes to the purchasing habits of the vast majority of PlayStation owners. Insert Principal Skinner "am I so out of touch? No, it's the main core consumer base who are wrong" meme here.

Better than BRAUN STROWMAN as was rumored a couple weeks ago

@PuppetMaster good demand? Compared to what, no demand at all?

9 years ago the best selling physical movie sold 4 million copies. 2024? Less than 900,000. Do the math.

@naruball I said non-existent demand. Perhaps I was wrong. I should have said "demand for this extremely popular movie on physical media will be significantly lower than the demand for Despicable Me 2 on physical media, a critically acclaimed cultural touchstone."

In 2017 the top selling physical movie release moved 4.39 million units.

In 2022 that number was 2.01 million.

In 2024 it was 806,000.

Tell me which direction those numbers are going.

@SMJ it's important in a game sense because once the physical media box collectors boycott PlayStation into bankruptcy, Sony will only have movies left to make.

@ElPenitente what is your definition of "demand"

Every year at least one person buys a Pet Rock as a gag gift. Is there now a demand for pet rocks? Should retailers begin stocking Pet Rocks in every store because "the hottest toy of 1975 is back!" No.

@PuppetMaster wow, 46 million dollars!

The Matrix sold almost 400 million dollars worth of DVDs alone. In 2000s bucks.

Demand is a fraction of what it once was. But hey what do I know, I just have eyes capable of looking at the significantly reduced physical media sections at every major retailer in America.

@naruball you mean the fact that physical media sales have declined year over year for the last several years?

Just because a handful of nerds want something that the majority of consumers don't, doesn't mean there is a demand.

And demand for a physical copy of this film will be non-existent.

Companies typically don't cater to 10 percent of their consumer base.

@Balaam_ you know what real homeowners such as myself enjoy? Not cluttering up our houses with plastic boxes and *****.

No, mine is coming from Gamefly. Play it, beat it, send it back and get the same experience as those who own a box while paying a fraction of the price.

@dskatter yep, I often buy someone a gift but then wait 6 months to give it to them.

People clutching pearls over something that might hypothetically happen in Spring 2027 for a game that isn't out for another 4 months.

But that's what collectors do. They spend their time online crying about games, not actually playing them

It's almost like these publishers have the same sales data as Sony and know that catering to the enormous majority is better for business than a loud minority of box collectors.

I thought it stunk. A worse version of Hitman, Uncharted, Max Payne 3 and the Rocksteady Batman games, all rolled into one mediocre package.