Sony's ending production of physical, disc-based games. This is literally game over for PlayStation. The rest of the industry isn't far behind. Read the full article on The Bryant Review 00:00 Sony...

Sony’s ending production of physical, disc-based games. This is literally game over for PlayStation. The rest of the industry isn’t far behind. Read the full article on The Bryant Review

00:00 Sony’s ending disc-based games.
01:24 PlayStation’s long & storied history of economic violence against their own customers.
04:24 Final proof that you cannot trust Sony.
06:09 The corpocrats are about to destroy the gaming industry.
07:22 What to do about it?

  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
    13·
    25 days ago

    Louis Rossman did (IMO) a good rebuttal to the latest panic (and is indicating panic was warranted a decade or so ago.

    Link For The Lazy

    TL;DW: The real issue is DRM. Even with disks, you didn’t “own” the game. You could be barred from playing it if it required internet connection; you couldn’t burn a copy. GOG distributes diskless games, and with executables that allow you to burn them to a disk if you want. The issue is DRM, not disks for games.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      8·
      25 days ago

      I think its a bit nuanced. But you are correct.

      • Not owning physical media means a much smaller or non-existent 2nd hard market. Spawn-wave (another youtube channel) has been talking about this for years now. Its…not good.
      • Louis is almost always at the for-front of the conversations about true ownership. You are correct, if you dont own the thing, you end up in situations where things can be taken back without recourse. And physical media, while great, could be just odes to download the actual game/media.

      My personal thought on the matter: If you cant run a thing outside of an internet connection (and its tied to another system) then the user doesn’t really own it. Theres a reason my ebook readers dont connect to the internet. And why I have a collection of fat hard drives with stuff the family has collected. And physical media.