I wonder if Sony will try to position a PS Portal successor as the low-end for PS6. A streaming only device. But it would only make sense if they allowed all PS+ tiers to utilise the feature, and for digital purchases even for non-PS+ users.

Console is high-end. The handheld sitting below that. Then streaming only as the low-end (even if not handheld form).

Unfortunately the price components is going to force PS6 to be priced out of the range of most people, so I do have to wonder what choices are available to them besides that.

Video games were never a dying category. Nintendo kept investing in a platform that is pretty much their product, and is widely successful. That's not the case for physical media. 

Sony wasn't in a dominant position in 2021?

Even if so, Xbox is mostly digital too right now. 

That's kind of the problem. Most people aren't buying digital, and Sony thinks physical is pretty inconsequential. 

And you'd just be proving them right.

Physical isn't that big. It's down to about 10% of the market on PS5. A lot of those people are just going to switch to digital copies, that Sony gets way better margins on. Even if 50% of people stop buying physical, Sony doesn't care. That's what they're hoping for.  

If you want to prove Sony wrong, you need to do what they won't expect, which is buy *more* physical games.  

And yes, Sony is being remarkably arrogant. Apparently they don't even think they need to talk to consumers about this. 

Sonys on a generational run of bad PR right now so layoffs are probably due. Start with Bungie, just rip the band aid off and close em.

Either Marathon is doing a complete 180° or the game is soon to be canned, there is no other option after the game director is out while the game is bombing.

Marathon just lost its Game Director.

Aka they let him resign or be fired.

Two games that you won’t be able to 100% come 2027.

Enslaved Odyssey to the West - the Perfect 10 DLC is not available in the UK. You can grab the premium edition that’s also not in the UK physical or digitally (coz DLC by itself is region locked) from the US store for $20.

Alice Madness Returns - the first game is a free download that’s needed for the full 100%.

Wrong. Nin Wii was very successful. Where was the PS Wii equivalent? What about (the lack of) instant social media communication back then?

Wrong again. SNY wasn't in the same overly dominant position when they first tried to shut the PS3 Store down. Jim Ryan was also still in charge.

If the majority, more so being casuals, have switched over to digital, how are you going to convince them to stop buying digital and go out and buy physical instead when SNY has told everyone they're ditching physical come 2028?... You'd be buying a dead format. Nobody is going to do that. 

However, those that buy physical, lots or little, who understand the many negative consequences of this, can boycott physical all at once, and it will show up like a sore thumb since that crowd is larger than SNY is leading people to believe. Add to that again of course, heavy, consistent, social media bombardment. If SNY is too blind or to stupid to notice or understand what it means then let them eat cake. Let them find out the hard way.

Heck maybe SNY is once again arrogant enough to think they can get away with the console curse of three's this time since they've got a handheld on the way...

Looks like Bungie just lost another senior dev in Lars Bakken. He's retiring from the games industry in general. LOVED watching him on Bungie's ViDoc's back in the day. I'm guessing his shares in the company just finished vesting, as he now lists himself as a dog walker on LinkedIn lol. You can only do that if you just got PAID paid!

Best of luck to him on whatever he decides to do next.

It does have digital only dlc, so you better grab it if you'll already spend so much on the base game.