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Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical Games
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24+ hours? Wow.
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It's interesting because Japan has traditionally been very big on physical media. I guess Sony PlayStation has had some foreign CEOs recently that may be a factor??
Sony is a weird shitshow of a company. Too big and too many departments and branches, with no one knowing what the other is doing. Back in the day, as Sony Electronics was developing their first physical MP3 player, Sony Music was lobbying to make MP3s illegal. Department heads shift to a different branch and shutdown anything their predecessor was working on.
they saw the $$$ in perpetual subscriptions.
It still is in regards to music releases.
Almost every indie creator in the touhou scene releases CDs on booth or somewhere adjacent.
PlayStation has had foreign leadership for 7 years
How crazy is that for a Japanese company.
Nissan was ran by a Brazilian guy for almost 20 years.
Sure. I just found it humorous a multi-national company like Sony is run by a 'foreigner'. Foreigner to whom?
I wish this would be the anine cabbage of the gaming world.
Wouldn't that have been the Golden Horse Armor?
Now that Xbox is dead they can do whatever the fuck they want
Wait what? I thought there was a new one in the works? I could have swore I saw a post about it this week.
Yeah, but unless Helix suddenly fixes everything Xbox has been doing wrong since they debuted the XB1 in 2013, the brand is probably dead shortly after it launches.
Xbox has had what? One half-decent console?
The first one was great imho, I think the brand wouldn't have taken off at all without a decent first machine
The 360 was even better perhaps, thanks to plenty of good games I'd say. Not sure what happened after that, I was off the wagon
360 was fine on paper, but the RRoD plagued it.
The xbone was a hard pivot into the Xbox being a "media center" rather than just a gaming machine. In 2013 we all realized that yes, a console could be used to watch movies or even stream Netflix... But it's primary purpose was as a gaming console and people were put off by the marketing.
They also had some game sharing controversies of their own. MS and Sony have been trying to kill physical games on their platforms for well over a decade now so we'll see where it goes.
The xbone pitch was amazing for gamers who watched tv, it just never worked well out of the box. To actually watch live tv, you had to buy an additional dongle and an antenna, and then after spending all that on setting up your media center, you had to buy the remote separately.
And then the whole experience wasn't as smooth as it should have been, and cable integration was very buggy in my experience.
I would have understood them making this call for PS6 onwards - digital edition only. But while they're still selling disc PS5s at eye-watering prices? What the fuck are they thinking? Way to burn good will with your ever-shrinking fanbase.
They're just trying to ride out the backlash until we all get distracted enough by other news to forget about it.
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.
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.
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SONY has always been a ~~little~~ enormous shit.
Actually they used to be pretty good back in the 80s and early 90s when they were a hardware maker and the company was always headed by somebody from the Engineering division - they made high quality consumer electronics at reasonable prices.
This is how they built quite the brand name.
Then in the late 90s (if I remember it correctly) they bought a major movie studio in the US and after a few years the top job went to somebody from the Media division.
After that all their electronics (such as Bluray and the MiniDisk) was locked down by design, quality fell a lot, they started lobbying heavily for things that would make Intellectual Property more valuable such as extending the duration of Copyrights, the DMCA and Anti-Circumvention legislation, and became so anti-consumer that they even put out music CDs with rootkits for people who listened to it on a PC.
But yeah, for over 2 decades Sony has been pretty much Evil.
I see someone remembers the 2005 rootkit debacle. Such assholes.
Cowardly little shits.
I am imagining the marketers leaving the office with life jackets riding small boats. 🛟🚣
Sony being an absolute dick, like they have been for the past 4 decades
This is not a new thing
💯, and despite being one the most anti-consumer companies around, the tens of millions of fanboys will buy their stuff no questions asked, and defend them to the end of the earth on all major gaming forums. Neogaf, Resetera, Reddit, ign, etc are all basically Sony fan sites where basically everyone hopes and prays for a PlayStation monopoly.
Note having said that, this was inevitable as physical game sales are basically dead. It makes sense. It’ll upset a bunch of people, but they’ll still buy every PlayStation console, sub to PS+, and buy all their games on PlayStation.
There's always Microsoft and Nintendo.
Shows how much they care lol
They are afraid haha. And they should be. Dammit.
they gotta come back sometime
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