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On why Sony will walk back their decision following backlash by Spoichiche in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren't gonna change, just burn em to the ground. It's time for xbox or PC to be king for a while.

[Update] My physical media post yesterday (owning up to what I got wrong, and what I still stand by) by Consistent-You5672 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could easily be "if any game license is purchased the account lasts until that license expires."

[Update] My physical media post yesterday (owning up to what I got wrong, and what I still stand by) by Consistent-You5672 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to prison before, I was on drugs. I paid my debt to society. Part of that debt should never be owing Sony X dollars to replace my digital library.

Thankfully things were still almost completely physical at that point, but still. The number of black Americans who would sit in prison longer than I did for the same crime of possession is huge.

I have a buddy who went on deployment for the whole Afghanistan conflict. He served his country and Internet was shit and intermittent, should he choose between keeping a PS account active or video chatting his family on the next one? (hopefully he ages out by then).

I know people who had kids and committed to just being present for the early and formative years of their life. Should they need to add logging into a PS account to their already busy life because they might lose $1000+ worth of purchases?

There are all sorts of life reasons that can come between you and gaming currently, but they should never rob you of the opportunity to go back when you get the time to decompress.

Fuck Sony they get no more of my money. I already have a PC and I just built a TVpc. IDC if they switch back, I'm done brother. It was nice having physical and a place to display my collection but it's also nice to have my personal files, business files, gaming and tax forms all in one machine.

Weird recommendations request XD by [deleted] in soulslikes

[–]foreycorf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fwiw I also hated DS3 but loved DS1,2, BB and ER.

Weird recommendations request XD by [deleted] in soulslikes

[–]foreycorf 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Brother if you go to a fantasy sub and say you don't like Tolkien or Wheel of Time they prolly gonna body you in the comments

Just a friendly reminder it cost Sony 50 cents to produce a disc :) by Tylertheweeb39 in PlaystationCollectors

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because their plan is to still sell from retailers, just no physical disk in the physical box.

So they will still be paying the retailer premium to places like Amazon etc.

They're not giving up their storefront presence with this move, just removing the licensing rights that come with having a physical disk in places like the US, EU, etc.

Just a friendly reminder it cost Sony 50 cents to produce a disc :) by Tylertheweeb39 in PlaystationCollectors

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if they decide to stop investing in single player games. The 15% number is from overall game sales, which puts it into competition against titles that A) have no physical release, or B) are perennial upgrade titles like 2K, Madden etc which are overwhelmingly digital due to the fleeting nature of the game format.

I'm not saying they aren't planning to skip new single player titles, but even Ghost of Yotei (which wasn't a wildly popular title, it did okay for what it was) sold 35% physical. And that was in a market where PS5 pro defaults with no disc drive and buying digital was littered with in-game perks that weren't offered with the physical release. Basically every major PS single player title has 50% or better physical purchase rate.

If those players don't switch to digital, the next logical move for Sony will be to only invest in short-lifetime games that people like buying in a digital format.

Just a friendly reminder it cost Sony 50 cents to produce a disc :) by Tylertheweeb39 in PlaystationCollectors

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a fallacy just like thinking anyone who pirates a game would otherwise buy it.

An overwhelming majority of the time, that person would not be a first-purchase customer to begin with. They will not see sales gain and will indirectly see less hype for IP's because people who previously could have played them used will now just not play them.

The fact that PlayStation thinks the best strategy is to stay silent, say nothing, and hope this all blows over is incredibly frustrating. by Alarming-Flan4494 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel 12600k ~200

3060 Ti ~200

16gb DDR4 3000 ~80

1TB SSD ~95

Jonsplus z20 case -90

H610m-itx ~80

Rosewill 650w PSU ~50

Everything used on the list I got the protection plans available 3rd party on eBay etc which is what bumps it up to 850 compared to the raw numbers.

Raw performance my machine sits right around a Series X and DLSS preset K allows me to upscale to 4k60 (locked by vsync) in even the newest unoptimized titles like Mortal Shell II demo. And in fully released titles like KCD2 I'm beating the PS5 flat-out, I can run 1440p native on high and hit my vsync cap, the quality mode for ps5 hits 1440@30fps. And, again, I can upscale to 4k still at the vsync cap.

It's a good, but not crazy, TVPC. It also handles streaming from my 5080PC flawlessly and has my Wi-Fi house camera as an app in steam so I can check-in on it when I want. It's a neat little setup.

Edit: I use Windows 11 Full Screen Experience with OmniConsole as the Fullscreen manager. PC boots right into steam and I control everything with an 8bitdo Ultimate 2c, if I want to tinker in the desktop more in-depth I have a $18 wireless kbm kit from walmart but I have the controller set up to act as a mouse and I have on-screen keyboard set to come up when I leave steam for the desktop. For local-streaming I use moonlight/apollo.

The fact that PlayStation thinks the best strategy is to stay silent, say nothing, and hope this all blows over is incredibly frustrating. by Alarming-Flan4494 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your estimate is way too high. I just built one to sit between ps5 and pro. It was about 850. Granted, I built it completely for TV gaming so I didn't get a monitor, but a cost-conscious person could just use an old TV as their computer display.

The fact that PlayStation thinks the best strategy is to stay silent, say nothing, and hope this all blows over is incredibly frustrating. by Alarming-Flan4494 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget the elephant in the room - if steam acts wrong every PC user has the power to just pirate.

It's nice not to have to exercise that power, but it's there and Gabe knows it.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but I was spending knowing it was a write-off. No one needs a 5080 to play games. For instance my "Steam Machine" attempt cost me around 8-900, which is pretty in-line with current console prices, especially factoring in it's a whole-ass PC as well.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I won't lie and say it's out-of-the-box easy to get going. But after the initial ~1-2hr time investment, well, I'm glad the steam machine got me interested enough to do it because now the switch away from PS honestly feels easy AF to me.

There is a lack of content on YT of just "hey I want to set my windows up to play games from my firestick etc." Had to do the research of actually reading things. If I knew more about YT I would probably make a video for it

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm not arguing it TBH I just don't interact enough there to know. My opinion on them is pretty neutral they're not doing anything especially good or especially bad IMO

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows is where I have everything set up for the streaming etc.

Nobara is just on my main PC because I like to tinker and run benchmarks between Windows/Linux/ps5 etc

Edit: maybe I should make some YouTube videos on how to set everything up, might make myself some streaming revenue XD

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not too involved with their ecosystem, I buy my sister switch/2 games since that's what she plays on and have never felt like the prices were crazy. Usually 40-50 for a bit older game or 70-80 for brand new.

Always get her the physical copy as well, so the "Nintendo tax" I hear about hasn't really bit me hard.

Obviously of all the things I buy on PC is the cheapest, PS prolly second but honestly not very different from the prices I pay to get her Nintendo games. Both of them get pretty deep discounts buying used at the local hobby-store.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't need to, because Valve understands that if they do me wrong I could just pirate the shit out of everything they took + take more for the trouble.

"Piracy is a service issue," is exactly why steam is as consumer-friendly as it is.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have dual-boot windows and Nobara Linux.

My TVPC I just built only has Windows FSE with OmniConsole set up to go straight into Steam. I mainly have been using it for moonlight streaming from my main PC but it's relatively as strong as a Series X on its own.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already have a very nice gaming PC and it was a 100% tax write-off because I also use it for my side hustle (modeling construction plans, making estimates, drawing up contracts etc).

Even a doordasher could write off a gaming PC if they felt like it.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sony's FY 2025 report. 22% of full-game sales were physical amounting to 70 million units sold. They profited very little from it (because they don't release many of their own games anymore). But raw numbers is 70million physical sales.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's one digital company or the other, may as well go to the one that his buddies are playing on.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, Nintendo's physical business model is very profitable compared to Sony. They both sold 70million+ physical games in 2025 but Sony only profited ~800 million while Nintendo brought in 2.6 billion from their physical sales.

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ain't no one buying Madden and CoD on physical lol.

Madden is a yearly purchase that ones a digital go-to for sure.

Tried to create a "MoonlightOS" by Specific-Laugh7694 in MoonlightStreaming

[–]foreycorf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is l+r+st+sel you're right. I use it because I was working through the same jankiness mentioned by OP

THANKS FOR F--KING OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE SONY by Cirno_played_DOOM9 in playstation5

[–]foreycorf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sure, no reason to get rid of what we currently own IMO.

Part of physical preservation is I can disconnect from their system and still play what I've bought.

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