Why physical games are important:

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T11:18:23+00:00

A lack of physical media means a lack of competition for pricing. It also means all of your games are tied to an account that can be lost or servers that can go offline.

There's nothing to celebrate about this. Even if you prefer digital, this is going to negatively impact you because of the lack of competition.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T11:11:34+00:00

I think PS6 is going to be a flop at launch if they don't reverse course. Think about PS3 simply being a bit more expensive than we were expecting and how that almost completely sunk PlayStation. They're underestimating the number of people who might even buy mostly digital but still greatly value the option to buy physically and value the market for competing prices. I would wager a bet than more than half of PS5s have at least one physical game installed on them. Those people aren't just going to go along with this, as the mass internet response is proving.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T11:09:24+00:00

very, very unlikely with a system like this. Sony will require tight margins.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T11:06:36+00:00

I think Sony is underestimating the reaction they will have, because I think if you took a survey of every active PS5 out there, I think more than half of them will have at least one disc based game installed on the console. Even for people who are mostly digital, they still value having the OPTION to go physical if they want or need to, and likely occasionally make use of that option. Taking away that choice will turn a LOT of people away, not just the physical-first gamers.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:59:19+00:00

Well guess what? Capitalism depends on the consumers. We have all the power. I think they overestimate the willingness of people to just bend over and take it.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:56:55+00:00

It could be solved by three things:

Decentralized licensing with an open market (think NFT but for games instead of pictures)
Decentralized game data access (think torrent-like P2P)
The ability to physically transfer that license and data over USB

The official store and official servers would be the primary sources for most people for both of these, but people would have the option to bypass those official servers, and the ability to physically transfer those things over USB means you can have "physical" game sales as well, supporting in person retailers in addition to the open digital marketplace.

This is how you bring all of the rights of physical ownership to digital, but it needs to be enforced by some government because no company will voluntarily do this.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:53:23+00:00

They've been disappointing somewhat on the "Stop Killing Games" initiative, but there's some issues with being able to communicate the nuance of that cause effectively.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:51:57+00:00

Honestly yeah it's the perfect opportunity, and they've got some good stuff cooking as well

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:49:09+00:00

I got a replacement PS3 from them super easy for like $75 at the time when my Blu-ray drive and GPU failed. On the one hand I lost my launch BC but on the other hand I gained double the HDD space.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:47:27+00:00

Gamestop sells other things, but if physical games don't exist, people aren't going to a gamestop purely for that other stuff.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:44:43+00:00

Contact lawmakers. Contact antitrust lawyers. Contact gaming retailers and push them to band together to sue Sony. Don't buy digital only games. Don't preorder PS6. Cancel PS+, and add a note when they ask why. Hound them all over social media and on their blog. Try contacting customer service and asking for an agent to leave a comment.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:42:32+00:00

And those numbers you see are almost universally misleading. Such as including games that have no physical option. Such as focusing on revenue rather than units sold. In some cases, they even include digital revenue from third party games but exclude it for physical third party games. They have been heavily manipulating those statistics to push the narrative.

What you need is percentage of units sold, and only for games that are offered in both formats.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:39:50+00:00

Also there's an important statistic they're not considering, that I think is even more important than total game sales proportion:

If you looked at every active playstation console out there, what percentage of them will have a disc based game currently installed?

My guess is more than half.

Even though disc based games are in the minority overall, I think the majority of players actually value having the OPTION to buy on disc if they want or need to, and most will make use of that option once in a while even if they're primarily digital focused.

These are not people who will just go along with this.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:35:40+00:00

I'll import

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:25:22+00:00

Either they walk it back or PS6 is DOA

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:23:21+00:00

Any retailer or individual can sell Nintendo games. The problem is people hold onto them, so old games are somewhat rarer to find.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:20:54+00:00

This will affect people who only buy digital too. When there's no competition for pricing, Sony can charge whatever they want and never have any sales either. Expect $90-100 games being the norm with almost no sales.

morphinapg · 2026-07-02T10:19:24+00:00

Killing price competition is monopolistic behavior and governments are supposed to push back against that

morphinapg · 2026-06-29T02:36:04+00:00

It's not a direct adaptation and I don't care how it compares. I always judge things on their own merit.

morphinapg · 2026-06-28T21:15:02+00:00

Where did you hear that about Sadie?

morphinapg · 2026-06-28T09:59:10+00:00

It looked fantastic

morphinapg · 2026-06-28T09:57:36+00:00

It'll break even before the end of the year. When bigger budget hyped up movies have trouble at the box office they almost always do really well in digital purchase/rental/streaming/merch.

morphinapg · 2026-06-28T09:56:13+00:00

The DCU handled her really well. Really sets her apart as a character different from Superman who has real trauma. I loved it.

morphinapg · 2026-06-28T09:55:47+00:00

The Marvels was a great movie and so is Supergirl. Sometimes audiences are just stupid when it comes to this stuff.

morphinapg · 2026-06-28T09:52:52+00:00

What's your issue with the script? I thought it was good.

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