Technology

I mean it's a no brainer. if you are forced digital anyway, PC has both steam and gamepass (for pc or ultimate if you also have an xbox). Why lock yourself into an ecosystem that provides no value, when you can go into an ecosystem that not only provides you with most of the Xbox catalog if you want to pay a sub, but also all of the other PC storefronts.

The only reason people ever went console was for the low price, exclusives, the convienence and the physical market. The exclusives have sucked, the price is no longer low, and the physical market has been nuked by an atom bomb.

The question Sony should really be asking here is "why do people buy into our market" because they are actively destroying it.

Welcome to the PC Master Race, friends.

It's warm, cozy, and you don't have to drag yourself to a GameStop if you don't want to.

From what im seeing people are looking at steam/linux as an alternative not windows. With the RAM shortage, windows is probably the worst solution out of the available options.

Either way it sucks to get rid of the only way to get used games anymore. Im hoping this kicks back more and we see more partnerships with companies like limited run games and others who do physical releases. https://megacatstudios.com/products/zpf for example.

Anything but Linux…

I don’t see why they don’t at least try it, it’s free.

It is now the moment for Valve to announce that they have come up with a way to let you sell/exchange games between users on Steam. They do this and they eat the whole market.

What possibilities are lost with the disc(ontinuation)? Has running the PS without a permanent network connection been a regular use case for many? Are DLCs and frequent patches and updates not a thing in the Sony sphere?

The disc at this stage is somewhat symbolic, its the line that sand against the anti consumer practices being pushed by the platforms.

We have trusted them and during that they have:

• They have sleptwalked users into accepting digital over physical.
• They have infiltrated many areas of game production and monopolized
• They have normalised subscriptions for many areas of gameplay....

And now they are getting pretty bold of what they want.

• You will have to verify your identity
• The products you 'bought' can be taken away from you at the platforms discretion
• You will have to be online to play the products you purchased...and you will need to pay for that service.
• They can charge what they want for the games and there is no competition to weaken prices
• You will pay more for your device with less features

They are testing the tolerance with this. This is not about the physical disc. Its about saying enough!

Save about $100 and your sanity by using Linux over Windows

Like jumping from a trash bin to another trash bin.

I think it’s like most things, 1% are loud and the rest will accept it

Oh they are so close yet so far away

It's like when Twitter went downhill, everyone moved to [next corporate owned thing, yet to be enshittified. Anything but the fediverse.]

Turds with different shades.