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Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical Games (www.pushsquare.com)
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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Discs were already kinda starting to push their limits as far as their storage capacity on a single disc, it wouldn't.be profitable with modern AAA games for much longer anyway IMO. 100GB bluray would be like 10-20 bucks on the raw disc alone IIRC

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

They would sell you a game on 20 discs if you'd buy it that way. The price of discs is negligible. They are trying to kill the availability of used games so they can charge $60 for 10 year-old games because there are no other options.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Blu ray discs cost pennies to manufacture, especially at scale.

Also, Sony owns the blu ray IP.

Also also, if they gave a fuck they could just ship 2 discs in a box. Like they did at the tail end of the xbox 360 days.

They'd just rather not deal with it anymore.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 9 hours ago

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony stops producing Blu-ray soon.

We have the technology for the next generation of discs that could support 8k. It just happens to be that no one wants to put money into creating the standard.

Sony may not want to deal with it anymore.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world -5 points 12 hours ago

Plus no one buys physical games anyway.