Don’t forget the part where those physical games mean nothing. Requiring day 1 patches. Meaning, the day those sony servers die, the day after if you’ve never played that game before? The disc does nothing. It just points to a download, on server, which in this scenario is offline.
Meanwhile, you can still play a ps2 game, on ps2 hardware, and always will be able to. Hell sony could cease to exist, and you can still play GTA Vice City on PS2 50 years from now.
I know PS3s online services have gone offline, but I wonder if this trend of “here’s a disc, it requires a download” started on the ps3, or the ps4.
I wonder if I could still buy a disc, and play the game tomorrow.
What? They don’t “require” a day-one patch to play. Disconnect a PS5 from the internet, pop a new game in the drive and it will play just fine without any patches, albeit with whatever bugs the game shipped with (which is a whole different story)
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
on 04 Feb 10:37
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If they want to keep me on their platform they’ll probably have to, otherwise it’s gonna be a Linux PC for me with all the hassle PC gaming means in my eyes.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world
on 04 Feb 12:13
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According to Circana, the physical market has halved in the past three years, and potential US tariffs on Mexico aren’t going to help the physical game market. The longer it takes Sony to release a PS6, the less likely it is that it will have a disc drive.
Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee
on 04 Feb 17:18
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The physical market is basically in terminal decline. It would make much more sense for Sony to go with a separate drive addon if they are even willing to consider support discs for the PS6.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
on 04 Feb 15:06
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Well if there is no physical market they can point to that facilitates reselling your license(carrier?), they will need to support that digitally. So I believe it too!
ryathal@sh.itjust.works
on 04 Feb 15:23
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The PS5 doesn’t even have games and we are moving on to the 6? I guess that’s some innovation.
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Can’t wait to buy physical copies of the 2 ps6 exclusives
Don’t forget the part where those physical games mean nothing. Requiring day 1 patches. Meaning, the day those sony servers die, the day after if you’ve never played that game before? The disc does nothing. It just points to a download, on server, which in this scenario is offline.
Meanwhile, you can still play a ps2 game, on ps2 hardware, and always will be able to. Hell sony could cease to exist, and you can still play GTA Vice City on PS2 50 years from now.
I know PS3s online services have gone offline, but I wonder if this trend of “here’s a disc, it requires a download” started on the ps3, or the ps4.
I wonder if I could still buy a disc, and play the game tomorrow.
What? They don’t “require” a day-one patch to play. Disconnect a PS5 from the internet, pop a new game in the drive and it will play just fine without any patches, albeit with whatever bugs the game shipped with (which is a whole different story)
I think that’s their point, the quality of games has gone down the drain where the golden disc contains basically an alpha version of the game.
They pretty clearly say the “disc does nothing” which is a different, fallacious claim.
This is an important topic for game preservation. Makes me wonder if there is a life expectancy for the parts in a PS2?
Of course there is, capacitors go bad, other parts stop working.
The only fully guaranteed method of preservation is via emulation.
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If they want to keep me on their platform they’ll probably have to, otherwise it’s gonna be a Linux PC for me with all the hassle PC gaming means in my eyes.
According to Circana, the physical market has halved in the past three years, and potential US tariffs on Mexico aren’t going to help the physical game market. The longer it takes Sony to release a PS6, the less likely it is that it will have a disc drive.
The physical market is basically in terminal decline. It would make much more sense for Sony to go with a separate drive addon if they are even willing to consider support discs for the PS6.
Well if there is no physical market they can point to that facilitates reselling your license(carrier?), they will need to support that digitally. So I believe it too!
The PS5 doesn’t even have games and we are moving on to the 6? I guess that’s some innovation.
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I’ve been outta the console game for ages, but you ain’t kidding the PS5 only has~800 games currently. The PS4 has over ~3,500 lol.
I’m curious if this is partly influenced by demographics on how many people have used their PlayStation as their only Bluray/DVD movie player.
For me it’s rare now, but I’d also rather not brick my old movie collection by discarding my only TV disc drive.