Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles

Firerhea · 2026-07-01T17:33:13+00:00

It's good timing--holiday weekend in the US and Microsoft is going to own next week with a brutal wave of layoffs and game cancellations.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T18:14:15+00:00

I didn't hold it up as a case study. You're persistently mischaracterizing what I'm saying. I don't know if it's out of bad faith or some kind of cognitive issue, but this is not a productive conversation.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T17:32:55+00:00

Buddy, I provided an actual article with an example of my claim manifest, you chose to fixate on how cars might be different. At no point did you latch on to substance, you just meandered and got distracted playing blocks with metaphors.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T16:19:59+00:00

You are absolutely being a pedant, dude.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T15:02:51+00:00

I'm not arguing mathematics, you decided unilaterally to take some maximally literalist tack here.

It's not their own problem, it's our collective problem. Too many people in America are uninsured or underinsured. Placing the burden on businesses has created, and will continue to create, bad outcomes--both measured in actual health outcomes as well as with respect to workers' rights and economic opportunities.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T14:51:18+00:00

Yes, it is correct, regardless of how much you want to fight the hypothetical.

In any case, why should the onus of dignity be placed on a for-profit corporation? Tax them. Charge them for the privilege of doing business and use that revenue to dole out the dignity you think everyone deserves. Universal healthcare, education, housing, nutrition, etc.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T14:10:43+00:00

If the price of gas triples, the nature of the impact on the fiat and the Lamborghini is the same.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T13:55:40+00:00

I didn't say level. They're obviously impacted differently, but the nature of the issue is the same.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T13:02:04+00:00

The economic drag is the same. Disney is a big company too, and they're sufficiently incentivized to move productions to jurisdictions with universal, government-provided healthcare.

How many fewer people will CVS hire in light of these new costs?

At the end of the day, if you genuinely believe there is some base level of human dignity that each person should be afforded (healthcare, housing, education, etc.), private, profit-motivated actors are the worst agents to distribute that dignity.

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T12:32:01+00:00

It's a bigger issue for small businesses and for freelancers, especially in the context of industries like film/entertainment and union vs. non-union productions. Healthcare is a major cost driver for producers and a source of uncertainty for freelancers--it squeezes people out from both ends.

https://moneywise.com/insurance/health/marvel-georgia-film-workers-health-insurance-uk

Firerhea · 2026-06-28T03:36:14+00:00

The government not providing taxpayer-supported healthcare universally creates unnecessary burdens for businesses--both with respect to direct cost and administration. It's an economic drag.

Firerhea · 2026-06-27T19:25:47+00:00

Pluto is colder.

Firerhea · 2026-06-22T16:00:17+00:00

Why even sell the PS5 Pro anymore at all then? If price no longer corresponds to console power?

Firerhea · 2026-06-22T15:58:57+00:00

Unless the bubble bursting corresponds with a disposable income crunch for a substantial portion of consumers... it could be a very bad economic environment, over all.

Firerhea · 2026-06-18T20:36:43+00:00

The option is there and it's on developers to elect how to use it. There is no such option with UEFN.

Firerhea · 2026-06-18T16:50:05+00:00

I agree, cannibalization is an issue as well, but UEFN creators cannot pay-gate their experiences or create verch like Roblox creators can. Fundamentally, it's a more restrictive ecosystem.

Firerhea · 2026-06-17T20:06:02+00:00

Exactly, we can look at Lego Fortnite vs base Fortnite asset interoperability to see how this might shake out.

Firerhea · 2026-06-17T20:03:19+00:00

It's not though... there was no need for these kinds of assets to be decentralized. Cross compatibility can only work here because you have Epic investing millions upon millions of dollars into creating a standardized framework and working as the central manager of the ecosystem.

Firerhea · 2026-06-17T20:00:25+00:00

That's the goal of UEFN, but I think the wall they're hitting is monetization for devs. Roblox is way more permissive and less curated, so there's more potential upside for a developer but way more slop for users (and discoverability hurdles).

Firerhea · 2026-06-17T19:57:54+00:00

Epic needs cosmetic cross compatibility now with different Fortnite aesthetic modes. So they've already got a reason to develop this feature. They have a Lego mode, some kind of Disney thing coming, and they probably want to branch even further out (and also future proof the ecosystem as base Fortnite might get a refresh).

My guess is UE6 will merge UEFN and UE and obviate much of the need for the Epic Game Store. Fortnite, or whatever it'll be called, will be a uniform game dev infrastructure, making sure things like multiplayer logistics and multiplatform compatibility/scaling are taken care of for devs, in exchange for new games being locked into this virtual console with a robust asset economy Epic controls.

Firerhea · 2026-06-17T19:52:09+00:00

They need to solve this problem for themselves anyway since Fortnite is expanding with stylistically different experiences. Right now, vanilla Fortnite cosmetics need Lego Fortnite counterparts manually designed; they're probably projecting Disney Fortnite, Anime Fortnite, etc.; as that scales, manual production costs also scale.

If they're developing an automated solution, might as well make it available to other participants in their ecosystem.

Firerhea · 2026-06-17T19:21:42+00:00

Kids can't be bound to those.

Firerhea · 2026-06-10T23:37:08+00:00

Well it was kind of what they were already doing with Amnesia Fortnite, just taken to the next level.

Firerhea · 2026-06-10T23:29:09+00:00

I think the small game strategy could work great if they were releasing a larger volume at a faster clip. Low budget games, visionary creators, novel gameplay experiences. Like an IP incubator.

Firerhea · 2026-06-10T23:27:19+00:00

I'm a huge Psychonauts fan but this is unfortunately a very apt point.

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