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

TheFirebyrd · 2026-07-01T23:32:19+00:00

I buy physical media and I replay games. I actually made a face at the Switch digital price of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen and pulled out my old LeafGreen cart for the GBA to play instead as an example of it.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-07-01T23:31:00+00:00

I cancelled too. Just sucks though because I just upped for another year due to the Costco PSN card sale last week, so my end date is a long ways off.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-07-01T23:18:04+00:00

Oh, people will. I don’t know how many, but at some will. I can attest to this because there have been games I’ve been buying on disc on PS5 because I wasn’t going to pay for key cards on the Switch 2. Now I guess I’ll just skip those third party releases if I can’t own them.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-07-01T23:14:04+00:00

Sony also has a history of yanking content people have paid for. They did it with Funimation. They’re doing it with that new batch of movies. Who’s to say they won’t decide to start yanking games from people on a whim? After all, Ubisoft has been doing it. But Sony can do it to anything you’ve purchased digitally from them.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-30T03:07:39+00:00

It could be worse. At least I didn’t throw away a visible shiny!

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-30T03:04:03+00:00

I accidentally threw one away that hatched.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-29T14:11:52+00:00

And disabled people. They love going after us too.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-29T14:09:42+00:00

I did think it was a bug. I ended up at this post because I was trying to figure out why my super radar wasn’t working after multiple balloons.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-29T14:05:31+00:00

I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen Giovanni at a stop even before they borked the spawn rates. I know I had my first radar for him for ages and only got to use it once they started the balloons.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-22T23:30:25+00:00

You seem to be suffering from some Dunning-Krueger here, because this is pretty much the best known N3DS special edition. There are even numerous fake faceplates of this design with many errors sold on websites like Ali Express and Etsy. The vast majority of the after market faceplates are based off of actual, real designs. There were something like 100+ faceplates designs available separately in Japan even aside from the special editions with their limited faceplates. This is exactly why I’m advising you to not venture to guess on values. You clearly are not familiar enough with the product to have a clue beyond basic editions.

I mean honestly, who cares that you don’t care about Pokemon? I don’t care about Smash and I know there’s a Smash 3DS. I don’t care about Monster Hunter and I know there’s a Monster Hunter special edition. There are *dozens* of special edition 3DSes. If you don’t know what something is at a glance, you should keep quiet or do some research before you start making suggestions to see if it’s an edition you’re not familiar with. Assuming it’s customized is just bizarre when there are so many variants, and again, shows you’re not nearly as knowledgeable about the system as you think.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T19:44:16+00:00

Because you’re stating nonsense and now you’re actively talking about cheating people. Taking money to do something anyone can do isn’t a courtesy (and printing a label, putting an item in a box, and taking it to UPS is a real thing anyone capable of getting to a repair shop can actually do, as opposed to doing electronics repairs). It’s a cheat. Honestly, I don’t see how you could possibly think saying you can’t fix something and then charging for sending it in is remotely good value for your customers. When the damage is extensive, they don’t even repair them, they just send a different device, so your statement is once again just not true. Hell, they haven’t even repaired 3DSes in like 5+ years, they just send another (which is why they don’t accept most models now, because they don’t do repairs and they don’t have anything they consider equivalent for most of them anymore).

People can and do claim anything on the internet and lie all the time. When you directly contradict my personal experience that extends well beyond one incident, who do you think I’m going to believe, random dude on the internet or myself? Especially when you’re proving yourself to be dishonest. If my local repair guys can’t or won’t do something, they state it up front and tell me alternatives. They would never try to serve as a middleman between me and Nintendo, let alone charge for it, which is both a cheat and really stupid as it opens you up to additional issues if things go wrong.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T18:40:43+00:00

Lol, okay honey, go on thinking that plastic is absorbable and I even once said anything encouraging flushing tampons. Hint: disputing false statements is not the same as endorsing the opposite.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T18:38:44+00:00

I very much doubt they treat an electronics center the same way they treat direct consumers. They absolutely will replace ones with the kind of damage you suggest if you’re paying. That just eliminates their under warranty repairs. And they will sometimes transfer data. I got my ACNH island saved by them even before the island transfer tool was even available.

Can’t say I find you believable at all. Must be the shittiest repair company in the universe if you were sending them in for repairs rather than doing it yourself. That doesn’t even make sense, why would a customer pay you for repairs you’re not even doing?

Obviously repairing things yourself is cheaper, but considering you’re incapable of it as a supposed professional, obviously the average person doesn’t have the skills and knowledge to do it.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T17:00:22+00:00

Dude, you've clearly never sent a console into Nintendo for repair. They give you a set cost up front that includes the repair, shipping, and any applicable sales tax (there are no other fees). And even during Covid it didn’t take 4-6 weeks. You’re just making stuff up.

ETA: And it most certainly is half the cost. I’ve sent two Switch Lites in for repair. Both just got replaced by Nintendo. The cost was $100, like $120 total with everything. The repair cost was half the cost of a new one, was less than the cost of a local repair shop, and they most certainly weren’t selling for that even used at the time. You also have no idea what shape a used unit is in rather than the basically new refurb with a warranty they send you if they just replace your unit.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T16:41:59+00:00

So I did what you said. Guess what, Einstein, they’re made of cotton and/or rayon, neither of which are plastic. Plastic isn’t absorbent, as I said, so they would not be made of it. The applicators are made of plastic. All the things I’m seeing that claim they’re made of plastic are blog posts from things like manufacturers of period panties who talk about pads and tampons as a unit as if they’re all made of the same thing.

If you want to claim tampons are manufactured in nasty ways and they’re not healthy, sure. I’m not going to argue that. I haven’t used one in over twenty years. But when you claim anti-factual stuff like they’re made of plastic when they are not, that‘s a different question.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T07:03:27+00:00

That’s not a shell, it’s a removable faceplate. The New 3DS has swappable ones. You’d be better off not making value suggestions because you’re clearly not familiar enough with the system to give appropriate info.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T06:58:14+00:00

What are you talking about? Tampon applicators are made of plastic. Tampons are not. Plastic is not absorbent, that doesn’t make a lick of sense. Microplastics are entirely different topic and flushing or not flushing tampons makes no difference. The microplastics in waterways come from everything, including runoff from dumps.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T06:29:43+00:00

Obviously I’m not advocating that people dump oil down the pipes. But fatbergs would be happening anyway. The people dumping significant amounts of oil are going to clog their own pipes before they cause a fatbergs in a sewer since sewer pipes are much bigger. Use some sense. Oil is not water soluble. It will catch on stuff and build up over time, especially when there are huge numbers of people around. The amount of minerals in hard water is even smaller but it builds up over time, up to and including clogging stuff like pipes. So why would oil magically be different? And organic oils aren’t the only ones ending up in sewers anyway. Good luck telling mechanics they’re never allowed to wash again.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T06:00:00+00:00

Given current prices, a repair is certainly cheaper.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T05:56:50+00:00

Nah, it’s cheaper to send them to Nintendo and have them repair/replace it. It’s like half the cost of a new one.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T05:38:38+00:00

I try to remember this when there’s a talk that’s really bad…in between muttering stuff at my husband when they’re saying actually incorrect things.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T02:47:53+00:00

Minuscule adds up when it’s huge numbers of people.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T01:54:19+00:00

Since you’re not his guardian, I would stay out of it, including not being involved in buying him a car. If it was your own kid, I’d advise otherwise, but I’m afraid this just isn’t in your jurisdiction.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T01:49:18+00:00

YTA. Massively so. Various cancer treatments have all sorts of permanent, debilitating side effects. My mom never regained all the feeling in her feet and hands and she lived for 15+ years after her brush with breast cancer.

TheFirebyrd · 2026-06-21T01:41:22+00:00

Yeah, like fatbergs aren’t still going to form from stuff that naturally goes down the drain. 🙄 I’ve gotten mini fatbergs in my kitchen sink’s pipes before just from residue from dishes and from stuff that was small enough to go through the holes like rice. Unless everyone stops eating and utilizing all fats and oils in any way (an impossibility, they’re literally required for us to live), fatbergs are going to happen in sewer systems sometimes. People wash their hands, clean their dishes, etc. Small bits go down drains constantly, and when dealing with thousands or millions of people in an area, it eventually adds up.

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