Now we know why they stopped shipping games to PC. They need to prep their user base for a hardware price that will have users consider just buying a PC instead, taking away the “I can play the PlayStation exclusives on PC anyway” argument.
yeah have players change that to, “I don’t need to play PlayStation exclusives”
PS5 had no games, PS6 is going to have no players. Amazing the speed with wich technology advances.
And, thanks to Microsoft, they will also have no competition.
So it will cost $1080 to play a first game on PS6 with no physical copy. I’m going to disable my networks on my Playstaytions so I don’t get any more shittty updates, and switch to GOG. Fuck this walled garden shit.
For similar reasons I just flat out haven’t bought a console since the PS3, except for the Switch. And even that I kind of regret. I really don’t see any appeal anymore. The PS4, PS5, and various 'Bones are just cut down, locked down and DRM laden PCs anyway. There are no interesting architectural quirks anymore, the content and even input methods are all basically interchangeable now, and thus there’s no reason to not just play on the PC I already have aside from exclusivity pigheadedness from Sony or Microsoft.
Agreed. I only bought the PS4 because they had Dark Souls 3. Don’t think PC did for ay least a while. I can’t see any games being worth it any longer. I’ll just go outside or read a book if I can’t get something that runs on a regular computer.
Wasn’t there Bloodborne too? But yes, the point stands.
I was sore about Bloodbourne at first because the used dev reaources that were pulled from Dark Souls efforts. Also, I judged the game poorly for having a gun.
I changed my mind after being talked into playing it and now love it.
Thankfully this no longer matters since Sony just made an announcement which killed any interest in their platform.
Im with you, but the amount of people who dont care is scary high.
I’m pretty shocked people still want physical media, but whatever. I think we can tackle the licensing and lock-in issues with digital medial without pearl-clutching physical media as if it weren’t riddled with its own problems.
A) what problems are you referring to?
B) DRM free already solves a lot of it for digital titles. Sony, Microsoft, etc are entirely uninterested in that. They wouldn’t be able to pull them from your library if so.
C) Removing physical media completely kills a used market. Dead Space is $20 on disc, $70 on the Sony store. Sony doesn’t want you to think about that though. Sharing becomes nearly impossible. Ironic, considering Sony’s stance for the PS4
The biggest thing is simply this: physical media offers protections from corporate abuse/greed. If digital media wasn’t abused by corporations, we wouldn’t have this issue. Physical media done correctly makes most of those abuses impossible. And, unfortunately, we can’t trust closed source corporations not to abuse us when money can be made. So without a forcing function through legislation, physical media is that forcing function/protection.
