That’s why I’m now trying to be wise enough and wait a few months before upgrading.

I’m a vegetarian, using my muscular bike a lot and trying to buy as much local food as possible, so I’m trying to do what I can.

I’m sorry if I offended people, by saying these physical dics would be an ecological problem for me. I agree that just a few people would probably buy them and it wouldn’t be a big deal.

It’s just that, as long as we have a DRM free digital games, I don’t really see what physical games would bring except easier resale (and collection/decoration).

If it helps GOG bring better features and games, I’m not really against it then, even if I wouldn’t buy their physical games.

I understand this.

Still plastic waste is a huge problem.

Dependeing on the price, anyone could be tempted by collecting these, where collecting psintings would be too prohibitive.

I don’t think we should create more waste in our world, so I’m voting against it.

I’d want GOG to focus more on Linux and on getting more games on their store.

1. I was a happy Playstation user through every generation, starting with the first one
2. I got a Playstation 5 1-2 years after its launch
3. After being a Linux user for years, I decided I could also try Linux gaming so I bought a used LCD Steam Deck early 2025
4. My Playstation 5 started gathering dust and was only used for demanding racing games like Gran Turismo 7 or Nba Streaming
5. Saw the Steam Machine announcement and started having a dilemna. Decided I’d look at its price before making a decision to fully switch to Linux gaming
6. Saw the Steam Machine US price and decided I’d get it only if it’s less than CHF 1000.- in my country
7. Saw the Playstation disc removal and decided that no matter what, I ain’t getting another Playstation.

Thank you Sony for making my decision easier! I love your games and would probably buy some on PC if I could know for sure that they wouldn’t be taken away.

I ain’t selling the Playstation 5 as I’ll probably buy a few more exclusives (on disc) for it, but it’ll probably keep gathering dust and being mostly used as an Nba league pass streaming machine.

Now the removal of physical discs ain’t really the problem, but if you combine this with shady practices from Sony, it’ll be GOG (and Steam when not available) all the way for me.

Then they are just making my future choices easier because I for sure ain’t buying a discless Playstation 6.

A Steam Deck is made for you with such behavior.

It guves me the occasion to play all the titles I ignored over the years.

Still I need something powerful to play sim racing titles as it’s the only category where I can’t just play old games.

Sometimes I force myself to try multiplayer, but other than Gran Turismo, Last Of Us factions and Gears of War, I never found how it could be considered as enjoyable.

And even these games are way better as single player games.

It’s also making my move to Linux gaming way easier.

Let’s hope you’re right and our governments will really start to move away from these evil tools.

I hope my country joins the movement.

That’s why I’ll mostly buy games on GOG from now on, but I still have to get some games from Steam so I hope they don’t do that too.

For movies, MakeMKV and LibreELEC all the way!

Channel looks onteresting and isn’t only on Youtube, so huge thanks!

To be honest, I haven’t read the article, but games have never been so cheap for me.

When I was a kid, NES games were around CHF 120.-.

Then as teenager they were around CHF 89.- on Playstation 2 or 3.

Nowadays, my most expensive game on Playstation 5 was probably CHF 79.-.

And on my Steam Deck, I don’t think I’ve paid more than CHF 20.- for a game.

Related to inflation, my Playstation 3 was probably my most expensive console.

Now it’s true that the hardware prices are increasing (bought my Playstation 5 at around CHF 500.- and I guess it’d be at least CHF 150.- more expensive now), but games have become cheaper over time in my country (Switzerland).

I don’t know how much the Steam Machine is gonna be in Switzerland, but it’ll probably still be cheaper than a medium gaming PC was 10 years ago.

If you get it, please write a review on Lemmy so that we can learn about your experience.

Well if GOG becomes evil, I’ll have all my games stored locally and I can do what I want with them.

While it’s true there is no GOG Galaxy for Linux, I think they sponsor Heroic and it works quite well on Steam Deck to be honest.

I might get pirated games if my Steam Library gets taken away since, contrary to PS5 or GOG, I wouldn’t be able to do anything with my games.

In the end, if I get a Steam Machine, it’ll probably be:

1. GOG when available
2. Steam
3. Playstation for their exclusives

Without the Steam Machine, it’ll be the same but I’ll have to take into account that some games are too demanding for the Deck, so it’ll be PS5 physical.

Appimage is fine but it’s annoying to have to download the Appimage for every update instead of just using your software center with a Flatpak.

First world problem though because kDrive is great for me otherwise.

Yeah but buying on GOG also means not being tied to them if they turn evil since you can just copy the game and use whatever launcher.

Yeah PS5 physical discs, even if only holding data to download the game, have the advantage of giving you the ability to resell a game if you don’t enjoy it.

Well no one really knows the price of the Steam Machine, maybe not even Valve😅

What I know is that I’m not willing to put more than 1000$ to buy it.

Even if Valve said they won’t bleed to make it cheap, I don’t think they can afford to make it so expensive.

We’ll see because everyone is just guessing for now😇

Yeah but I’m kind of psychorigid and I like to establish guidelines😅

True, but for this I plan on using a Steam Machine to be able to emulate a PS3 since almost everything after that era is available on PC.

Also it’s be easier for peripherals like the ones you get with Buzz games.