ITS OVER Sony Interactive Entertainment to end physical game disc production in January 2028

[BraLoD]

EricHiggin said:

BraLoD said:

That's true, but that's just part of it, what they are doing now Xbox started itself years ago, it's not like Sony is inventing a new way to screw people because they lack competition, they are doing the same Xbox did while Xbox was being buried alive by the very direct competition from Sony.

This is what the market wants to shift consumers to, Sony is just going all in and has way more weight than Xbox ever did to try to actually make it stick.

Xbox killed physical media in Brazil in 2023, that's 3 years ago, and Brazil was once Xbox third biggest market only after the US and the UK.

All those companies want the same thing, Xbox tried to go all in with in the digital, full control and always online future as early as 2013 when they felt they could do it as well, as they had massive competition from Sony as well.

So yes, lack of competition leads to worse outcomes, but it is not remotely close why Sony is doing it, as proved by Xbox more than once.

Can't disagree here, but if SNY somehow thinks right now that PS3 would've worked and PS4 could've been just like XB1, if only MS and XB (360) didn't exist back then as competition, well then they've absolutely lost their minds that it'll work for PS6.

PS6 will suffer considerably in this case, even if it ends up reasonably priced, somehow. They've gone too far already and we've got 18 months to go yet if not longer. Who knows what other terrible decisions they've got planned.

As things stand now, the PS6 launch might be the biggest disaster Playstation has even faced, even more than the PS3, even lacking the kind of competition from the 360 the PS3 had.

The thing is, if they keep pushing it, and it still succeeds, then it's over, if they fail they can try to pivot back, if they succeed it's only keep getting worse because they control everything, and there is no return from it.

Either they fail now and they work it out again, or they succeed now but eventually the unsustainable renevue/profit growth will result in at least Sony being out of business, and at most at the whole industry collapsing.