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Now ask them if they'll buy the next console.

Legislation should force all digital marketplaces to allow selling and gifting purchased media without a middleman taking a cut.

Bad take. They'll give you an install disc and then make you enter an account locked code to access it anyway.

Demand digital rights instead, before a big player goes bust. Because at some point that will happen, and you'll lose more than a handful of discs.

DRM is the issue not physical. No drm means I can just keep replicating my product when physical fails

As long as you still have tens of millions of people pre-ordering GTA6, nothing is going to change. People bitch and whine but they keep eating the slop.

"Gamers push back." Just like they pushed back against $70 and $80 games by lining up around the block to buy a Switch 2 so they could buy $70 and $80 games to play on it. Like Rockstar will make a mint selling $100 copies of GTA6.

My backlog is big enough and I'm old enough that I don't see a need to buy a new game for a long time.

Fight the establishment by getting kids addicted to old games.

Cannot wait until Sony comes out with a study that shows 100% of gamers ( a small handful of people guaranteed not to care about pjydical media ) don't want it so they can gaslight tge general public into thinking nobody wants it.

I’m fine with digital for convenience. I just don’t want physical to disappear. Having both options is better for everyone.

I have sold my PS4 after what I felt an unjust price hike for PSN and built a pc, didn't buy a console since

Why is it ok for PC to be all digital? I don't remember the last time I've even seen a physical version of a PC game. Everything is through steam, While console it's not ok? I can't remember the last time I purchased a disc version for xbox.

Like I used to have the physical versions of Deadpool and both marvel ultimate alliances but I lost the discs in a move I wish I could purchase them digitally again but that's about the only downside I've encountered with digital only is some license rights gets a revoked

wont this just push people to getting steam/valve

Steam on pc shows that gamers can be okay with not having physical media - as long as they trust the vendor that the thing they pay for actually means a persistent access to the game.

Unfortunately this move also gives much more power to the vendor. Once he decides to withdraw access to the player, the ownership of the paid-for thing becomes useless (until a lawsuit were to be filed and won).

Physical media without mandatory internet servers (like in pre-internet consoles) means true ownership - after buying a game, the vendor has no longer any control.

The key point to me is not directly the difference between physical disk or cloud download, but between truly offline versus online-required games (or goods in general).

Will they boycott?

If we're going to transition to digital only, a couple things need to happen.

When we purchase a game, we own it. This is not a long term rental.

If we want to sell it or trade it, we can.

The opposite of "digital" is "analogue". Disks are just as digital as data downloaded from the internet.

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::eyeroll:: 71% percent of people we asked an obvious leading question, but mostly already buy their games online and will mindlessly buy all their yearly copies of FIFA, Maden, and CoD regardless.

I mean, I hate Sony and this BS too, but the stink over this "change" is complaining about a horse that left the stable years ago.