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The worse part is that Sony is already using adaptive pricing in their online store. Every user has a profile and the prices are based on previous behavior. Users who spent a lot and impulsively buy games no matter if they're on sale will pay more.
Greed is a demon.
Sony:
Is this even legal? EU legal?
I foresee a future of jail broken PlayStations and games on flash drives. Raise the sails me mateys!
I foresee a future of jail broken PlayStations
To be fair, that future is now. People are already hacking PS5's to turn them into Linux machines
That only works for launch machines that have never been updated though.
Up to firmware 12.70 which isn't quite as bad as just launch consoles, but still. Give it time, motivated hackers make some insane things happen.
They've longed lobbied for anti-circumvention legislation and the corrupt politicians in the US and the rest of the World (with the EU Comission as a notable mention) have made sure it was implemented everywhere, exactly to avoid such a future.
The entire rotten edifice of Intellectual Property in the present day is literally the product of decades of corrupt politicians stealing more and more from the Public Domain to extend and protect this entirelly artificial kind of "property" for the benefit of the ultra-rich - as Digital became more and more important, laws were made or changed to take more and more rights away from common people in order to make the wealthy wealthier, which is why the richest people in the world right now are mainly in Tech.
I was there in the 90s when this corrupt destruction of the "commons" started limiting what could be done in the Digital domain and saw how we Techies lost that war, which is how we ended up with two decades of every more and ever more enshittified "closed garden" setups for all kinds of digital things.
Without shit like anti-circumvention legislation run of the mill people would have easy access in their friendly corner store to China-made devices doing things like what you describe or, for example, break your iPhone out of Apple's closed garden.
The shit low-innovation (certainly when compared to the 90s) World we live in right now is the product of decades of this purposeful transforming of the digital and intellectual commons into a Feudal system.
If we can't choose to buy physical games, we need to have the option of where we can digitally buy them.
I agree that discs are outdated and can't hold enough data for the whole game and they should turn to cartridges.
Oh man full circle back to cartridges would be hilarious.
Observe! The ancient dust blowing technique.
The price of RAM makes cartridges unaffordable.
You want $300 games? Cause that’s how you get $300 games lol.
It will be like when I was a kid and lusted over Neo-Geo games I couldn't get because of high Neo-Geo prices, but now I'm almost 40 and still won't be able to afford Neo-Geo prices for a PS6 game.
Not on a Sony platform.
Yet.
This is a valid observation, but also much more widespread than just Sony.
Xbox, Google Android, Apple, Oculus; there’s probably others. Many electronics companies have made devices that can only interface with their own App Store, in a digital fashion.
And that’s not me excusing it. A perfect world should probably have alternatives - but it does also make one worry that in that future, manufacturers wouldn’t have any incentive to sell their consoles under manufacturing costs.
Something the lawsuit may have to deal with is whether Sony can be aggressively forced into building a disc reader into consoles, in a world where many devices have no such thing.
What if we find a compromise? Instead of getting rid of discs entirely, perhaps Sony could make them smaller. Like some kind of... mini-disc? 😛
We just need to return to these bad boys.
I have some blank floppies I use as coasters. Seriously, though, just changing the physical format the games are distributed on would be a very smart move.
Nintendo not just keeping physical media but going back to cartridges with the Switch and now the Switch 2 has been a fantastic move for them. They increased the price of their console, same as MS and Sony, but it hasn't gone up nearly as much since the system has barely any storage space in it. And it doesn't really need the storage because games don't need to install to compensate for the relatively low optical drive read speeds. Sure, games are the same price or even a bit higher so total cost of ownership after a few years is probably comparable, but the lower buy-in cost has caused them to rapidly gain market share.
I do like physical media, but my gripe about the switch is the damn size of the cartridges.
I got kids and trying to keep track of those itty bitty carts is a constant annoyance. I can't even get them to keep their fucking shoes in the right spot and those are 100x bigger.
I wish they'd consider that, not because they need to be but just for durability and keeping track of them.
I hope people will just stop playing on PlayStation (or any console for that matter) and go over to PC with Steam (and 🏴☠️).
Consoles, the game prices and the practices of these corporations ain’t worth the money, time and effort.
EDIT: Since Timothy user seems to be trying to bait and refuses to actually debate, I have blocked the person. So I’m unable to comment back when someone else is commenting on my own comments towards him. Checking his Mod log, a few scrolls downwards and he got banned a lot for trolling.
All resistance is futile, unless (the vast majority of) people will not buy it at all. But they, as usual, will do that anyway, no matter what.
Most people seem to not see the longterm implications of things or just don't understand or care.
The console market has ceded market share to PC over the past few decades specifically because a growing portion of the market sees that it's cheaper over time. Everyone knows about Steam sales being better than the equivalent on consoles, whether they know it's because of increased market competition or not. More and more people have shown that they're doing the math on subscriptions to play online and realizing that it's not a good deal. When you cut out the physical market and its own methods of keeping purchase prices down, more people still will do the math and decide not to engage.
Fair points... Guess we will see when the new PS/Xbox hit the market. I hope you're right...
Or they completely understand and are ok with it.
Which surely will be the minority. I don't care either as I don't like consoles. But I like customer rights.
There are an estimated 3,600,000,000 active video game players worldwide...
Why does it never occur to anyone in these threads that YOU might just be an insignificant but vocal minority?
That was my point. Just revisit this thread in 10yrs and see.
And see what, that no one has physical media and no one cares?
Yes. That another consumer - right got slashed completely. The poor are forced to just rent houses, apts, cars, appliances and even fucking books and games. I drown in money and see a big cultural problem here, I don't know why you don't care. Because YOU can afford it? Or YOU don't care about owning stuff you paid money for?
Because >20,000 children have died in Gaza since 2023 as a direct result of the same exploitative capitalism, and selective outrage over video games seems ignorant, performative, and wasteful of my energy...
Because every moment spent advocating for the "rights" of 1st world consumers is an affront to millions of lives lost so you have the comfort and privilege required to care about something so fucking stupid and selfish...