They can do all this because people keep giving them money.

Too many people make it about brand identity than simply playing games.

Media rights expiring surely isn't on them.

They're also shutting down PS3 and PSVita store access, to add insult to injury.

This is what happens when their only competitor is a mindless Microslop.

Nintendo carved out their niche and Sony has no chance against them in that market after abandoning AAA and AA single player games in favor of trash service games.

So, nothing to look forward to. This is why you’re so behind in sales.

Playstation customer since my first job at McDonalds let me buy the original first model PSX, all the way through the PS5

fuuuuuuuuck you Sony. I've got a PC and you can eat 10 tons of my shit right now with this and your cancellation of PC support. We'll see who wins.

The entire reason I've ever bought consoles and games was because I could get used games at a bargain and also sell my old consoles and game collections when I'm done with them. I can't imagine that I'm the only person who looked at it this way.

Now console producers pull shit like this when they can't even claim to be more user friendly than PC because SteamOS is a real competitor.

Well I guess it was good while it lasted, at least until the last few years when greed fully took over. Microsoft is already on it's last leg and Sony and Nintendo are going to follow eventually.

Yeah, that’s the end of PlayStation for me. Hopefully someone else will come out with something decent.

Meh, I’m done with consoles. The exclusives will come to emulators eventually, and there will be plenty of PC games in the meantime.

The removal of physical games isn't that big of a deal to me as someone who mostly plays on PC, and the only physical PC games I've bought in the last decade and a half were touhou games I imported off Yahoo auctions.

Honesty I wonder why that actually became so normalized on PC while it didn't on consoles. I'm sure Steam has a big role in it.

Bet the Sony fanboys wish they didn’t make so much fun of the Xbox one’s digital plans now. Xbox’s digital plan had:

• digital reselling
• digital game lending
• retail pricing competition

PlayStation buyers will definitely not get the first 2, and Sony will likely prevent the third.

“Arrogant sony” is well and truly back.

definitely end of an era.
I'm not buying a console without physical media.

Sony can kill the second hand market if they want, but that was the last thing that differentiated them from Steam. Good bye Playstation, i'll remember you fondly.

It warms my heart to see that EVERY comment on Sony's blog post about it is negative. Hope the decision ends up biting Sony in the ass, but even if not, at least people weren't silent about it.

EDIT: and they're being yelled at everywhere else on the internet that people can post as well. Good.

I feel like defending consoles is a lost cause at this point. We can’t trust any of the big 3 anymore.

Ahhh, remember this PS4 promo video (YouTube for sharing physical games vs Xbox)? Pepperidge Farm does.

They are also lobbying to make hosting your own videogame server illegal: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/esa-bafflingly-declares-private-minecraft-servers-illegal-in-stop-killing-games-hearing-we-consider-it-piracy-we-have-lawsuits/

Sony is part of ESA.

This only reinforces the reasons why I bought a PC for gaming instead of a console.

I don't pay $70 for a game I can't even sell after using it.