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| BraLoD said: Yeah, we just had reports about Sony shifting productions from discs to microlens (I hope I got it right), in their last factory and workers are to be trained to do that instead. Sony own first party games still have a very decent margin of physical sales from what I understand, maybe more than double their overall ~17% number that actually is not a fair representation of actual games sold both physically and digitally have, because it includes hundreds of digital only titles or older games they don't print anymore for years and are sold as used, which doesn't factor in their ratio, but have readily available digital version that sell and do count. They are throwing a very sizable customer base in hope they embrace digital and they have full control of that landscape. Sony is betting their brand image and short term profit on even their own games (which can result in more studios closure) in hope they end up having everyone by their balls so it massively benefit them from there on. I can't see it any other way. |
It’s just the branch working on PS5 disc manufacturing that will be shiftet to microlenses to avoid layoffs, not the entire factory. PS5 discs are a major part of their production though, so it’s a bad sign for optical media in general.
And indeed this decision isn’t very smart from Sony when looking at the numbers, so who knows what dumb decisions they will pull next. Even if their 15 % wasn’t misleading, 15 % is still a lot of games.
