Sony just killed any reason for me to even consider consoles ever again. What, you've got 10 exclusives? Cool.
Xbox's Project Helix is doing the same.
If I'm digital only it'll just be PC. At least I have DRM free options.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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Just staggeringly anti-consumer. I guess this will be my last console generation then, I refuse to not have a disc drive and no second hand market
They know very well what they are doing. The market is saturated with good games, and they want to cut off the second hand market entirely. You cannot resell digital games.
And we know they will take them from you like those movies.
This could get interesting with the EU. It was ruled that the customer has the right to sell his license.
If someone defends this, Sony must provide a way to do that.
And this will be me shifting to all PC gaming. If I must go digital only, I would rather give my money to Steam. Sony has proven itself not the most trustable with digital content (example the recent purge of movies people purchased)
i mean it still sucks compared to reselling, but its possible to share your library on steam with friends at least.
best store would be gog but as a gamer on linux its not as easy as it should be.
I remember a certain PS4 promo of one Sony exec handing a game to another after after the reveal of the Xbox one. Competition is a good thing
No resale, no buy.
I am not a fan of discs (i can't even remember when i last used one tbh, must be decades), but i am a fan of conservation and transferable licences. This move creates a completely unpreservable generation of video games until the thing gets jailbroken to hell and back, which can take years - whatever games appear and disappear in that timeframe might be lost forever. Damn, at least you can resell Nintendos Game Keycards.
In an economy that viscerally sucks already, this is just another body blow.
Sony: “so maybe if we squeeze them harder, the next quarter will look good. It might kill us next year, but I can’t have an inconvenience now, butter to give up in a few months to look good now.”
Fuck it. Bring back cartridges. Megaman X is still fun.
Emulation is getting better each day, why not get a laptop that's pretty much a (portable) console on steroids? Or just flash SteamOS or something on your PlayStation if you're into that
Also a lot easier to borrow games from websites like Vimm's Lair/Internet Archive
"Their sales plummeted and, just like that, they started selling physical discs again" (but it was too late as people's tastes and interests moved on).
Companies think and make decisions in this way all the time, against consumer planned obsolescence is a fundamental part of their philosophy. Usually it is in ways that are too technical or esoteric for the general user to follow but here they have forgot themselves and made a play that is obvious to a great many of their customers.