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Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical Games
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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They're just trying to ride out the backlash until we all get distracted enough by other news to forget about it.
I'm just not buying a PS6, and if my ps5 stops offering physical media. I'll get rid of it too.
Yeh they’re expecting the upcoming Microsoft/xbox layoff-ocalypse to dominate the news and make their news yesterday’s story. I’d bet they were expecting the layoffs to be announced yesterday on the Friday.
Also there’s nothing they can say that hasn’t been said already that will make people who are angry change their minds, so there’s literally no point. It’s a vocal minority and the best thing for them to do is ignore it.
lol no the best thing for sony to do is not be shit.
Sony have been shit for 10+ years, and PlayStation is literally in the best financial position they have ever been. They’re printing money for Sony.
Like I said, it’s a vocal minority complaining, and the best thing for Sony is to ignore them. It’s not the best for the people complaining, in fact it’s the absolute worst because they’re complaining because they want Sony to acknowledge them and reverse course, but Sony are not going to do that so saying nothing is in their best interests.
They're betting on GTA VI dominating the news as well.
Should've waited until September or something before announcing it.
Nah, it’ll have blown over long before then. It’ll be out of the news and people’s minds by August.
I agree. No point in documenting the backlash with social media posts when they aren't going to change their decision.
On a side note, are physical copies of games anything more than install disks anymore?
Not really, but they're install disks you can trade in or lend to a friend.
Provided the disc doesn't require a phoned-in registration key. I think Bioshock started the trend along with limited installations.
Console games aren’t like that, never have been.
Depends on the game. Many games are still playable from disc.
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