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PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox
(www.windowslatest.com)
News story entirely based on tweets. Garbage.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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What do you expect them to do, actually talk to real people about the issue? Like do real journalism!? Pfft
Can't talk with real people about this issue, nobody goes outside anymore.
I mean, even talking to people right now is pointless, the change hasn't happened. Lots of people may claim they'll switch, but most probably won't.
Eyes Linux computers over Microsoft or Sony.
screw Sony and Microsoft. both deserve nothing
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Build/Buy an AMD machine.
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Install SteamOS.
Alternatively for 1, you can wait for SteamOS to be working on Intel or Nvidia systems and build whatever you want after that. Or just use regular linux.
Bazzite (which is essentially SteamOS, but on a Fedora, instead of Arch [btw], base) works just fine -- excepting Big Picture / Console Mode, which is still buggy -- for both Intel and Nvidia.
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Oh yes, people are flocking to W11, flocking I tell you!
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Right? That's how bad it is. Although how that some major companies are having Linux distros as default installs, M$ it's kinda freaking out a little. It's like, how little can we do to make people happy and still steal their info.
These articles feel like cope. Most people aren’t as invested in physical media as our small corner of the internet. I doubt this decision will hurt Sony, and Microsoft and Nintendo will probably follow suit soon enough.
Look at the url, this isn't cope, it's an ad.
It's interesting, cause i just saw them mention this subject about gamers being mad at playstation in the national news in my country, so if that's anything to go by maybe it's causing more of a stink than we think.
It’s just a vocal minority. Every single sales metric available to us and publishers says physical is dead.
That's somewhat misleading. You can't reduce physical media availability then point at it saying "look people aren't buying it" because they don't have access to it in the first place, by design.
I mean I'm sure since digital media has become mainstream there's a shift, but it was a planned force shift to increase profits.
They haven’t reduced availability of physical Xbox and PlayStation games though. Ever. They’ve been making them, people just don’t buy them.
Me a few weeks ago: Oof, the Steam Machine is a tough sell.
Me this week: Lol, Sony is going to lose customers to Valve.
Windows 11 in the headline is missing what is happening right now. Steam OS being generally available very well might change the landscape of living room gaming. Playstation is about to be reduced to a peripherals brand.
Sony ain't gonna lose shit. Exclusives will ensure people buy their shit.
Aside from Nintendo, how often to today's games actually fit on physical media and not require downloading/patching to play?
Actually asking, I don't have any consoles.
Well they don't always, but you can just use multiple discs in that case. I think final fantasy has done this as well as a recent example, but this has already been done since the days of games still being on CD.
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Most games from my small-to-medium sized collection fit on a single blu-ray disc. Only some bigger AAA releases don't. I think only like 2 games I own have more than one disc - Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
I'm actually surprised they'd be willing to supply multiple disks. Thanks for the info.
There used to be CDs that came in cereal boxes, occasionally a game would be on two disks.
Also starcraft was on two disks for the installation, though I believe the second disk was for expansion to the main campaign.
Oh, Starcraft! I can only afford 1 copy but want to play with my friends... install multiplayer only on secondary pcs. or was that warcraft 2, or both
I was there too. I remember installing Doom from floppy disks. I've just never had an Xbox or Playstation, so I have no context for how those medias have evolved over the years. I assumed at this point they were mostly digital already.
I'm sure the last time I bought a physical box for a game was a WoW expansion. I don't recall if it had physical media. Either way, unless you're looking to play games with anticheat, I wouldn't recommend Windows
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