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

[EricHiggin]

Otter said:

curl-6 said:

With how short people's attention spans are nowadays and with bad industry news hitting constantly, Sony are probably betting that the outrage will be short-lived and that a few months now everyone will have moved on and stopped caring.

Timing this announcement just days after GTA6 moved 30 million preorders without a disc release was also rather cunning; if people put their money where their mouth is now, they'll have to miss out on the biggest game release in history, or just admit they don't really care THAT much.

People aren't serious otherwise they would unsubscribe from their PS+ as protest, boycott wolverine as protest...

Instead I've heard people simply say I'm going to buy the game physically lol. I mean I get the logic but you really gotta hit Sony hard & now... Not in 2028

Ironically I unsubscribed from PS+ when they rised the playstation 5 price in April because it felt greedy but in hindsight they weren't just being greedy, RAM prices are genuinely increasing at an insane rate and they'll probably be selling at a loss again within a year.

Making SNY pay attention now would hopefully save time, but having SNY set themselves up for an XB1 reveal and reaction would be far funnier. If after all this time they once again proved the 3rd console curse isn't just myth, would be gut busting. Kinda scary at the same time, but still more funny.

A 10th gen XB1 level failure with PS6 is the kind of situation that not only would cause SNY to go back to a PS4 type mindset, but they would be forced to do so far more quickly than MS did. Like cut 10th gen short and move on to 11th gen 4 years later. If they didn't, and just decided to milk their customers throughout a 7-8 year generation, they'd just end up in the same situation as XB Series S/X is now, so an even worse 11th gen in that case.

To me, those suggesting that you go out and buy all the physical you can to prove to SNY they should reverse course, are wrong. SNY will just pocket that money. You have to do something like you're suggesting, where you refuse to give SNY your money. They need to see profits drop, so much so their stocks drop, so their investors get upset. Then SNY will seriously think about reversing course or doing something else to ensure physical software is an option.