Idk guys, to me is just hilarious how people have praised Steam for almost 2 decades and now suddenly they care about "owning stuff". I guess they don't care about owning stuff if the rent is for cents.

It just shows how PlayStation wasn't as expendable as they thought it was every time they celebrated one of their games "failing".

What about owning nothing makes you think life will be no different than now if not better in the future?

What has you believing that a nuclear war will happen tomorrow or anytime in the near or distant future?

Console gamers just like Steams cheap game pricing. That's about it. They hoped the new Steam machine would follow that good guy look Steams held for a long time and be a cheap system that could play cheap games, but that's not how it turned out. Competition is good most of the time.

The majority doesn't want PS to fail as a whole. They want them to fail at the things they don't like so they'll try something new and better or go back to doing what they know works.

I don't do conspiracy theories bro sorry. Just let PS die and go to therapy. 

It's pretty well known that human beings don't like change. I've seen hundreds of comments online about how XXXXX person has been with PlayStation since the 90s or 2000s, and they've always purchased physical. Those are mainly the ones who are upset.

So it's mainly a very vocal, albeit older, minority. Whereas the current gaming generation, who may have started gaming late in the PS3 gen or early PS4, is used to digital, and that demographic is only growing. It was bad enough seeing statistics that something around half of the console playerbase are almost exclusively playing live-service games. Leaving a much smaller playerbase for traditional games that also happen to cost substantially more, and longer, to make than they used to.

Talk about changing times.

Suit yourself. All we can do is try.

I wonder how much of this is SNY learning from Concord and Marathon. Making big expensive AAA games for a minority and having it totally backfire and hurt the company considerably.
Perhaps SNY has taken that lesson and applied it to the physical media minority. Just focus on what the majority wants and to hell with the minority from now on.
Hopefully this isn't the situation because SNY would just be jumping from one extreme to another and hasn't truly learned in that case.

I think it's a conspiracy that you think this is something that the WEF is orchestrating. 

A lot of this stuff is happening because of Capitalism, a lot of times because it looks more convenient in the short term. 

It's easier for a lot of people to pay Uber, than it is to buy a car. 

A lot of people have bought into streaming, because it's cheap and easy. But they're losing out on having any control over the medium. 

The AI boom is making it more expensive to own computers.

Corporations are buying housing. It was cheaper to rent a house for like $800, than trying to spend $150k to buy a house. But now it doesn't cost either of those prices, because demand outstrips supply.  

What you're describing is also called being in the minority. If you take Plasma's for example, the market much preferred LCDs as a whole, there was no consipiracy to make LCD defeat it. They were just slimmer, sharper, more durable and often cheaper. Some things are genuinely unwanted and forced on consumers in app updates or sudden policy changes but that's really not what we're talking about here with the digital direction of things

If the market showed a strong shift to physical, sony would not be comfortable making this decision they made, but they can see on their forecasts that by the time PS6 arrives, physical sales would be less than 1/10 of most games. Of that 1/10, half probably don't mind digital, so you're left with 0.5 who do... Why not sacrifice that 0.5 and increase revenue? This is not me defending the decision, just explaining that we have to get real about forces that enable it. People's preferences have led here.

You gave the example of CDs and this is something I referenced with novelty coming back into play. As opposed to their being a conspiracy to stop us having physical media the market simply responded in pushing more emphasis on Vinyl collections and variants with new music releases, new cassets being printed for the first time in forever. For a long time production was struggling to keep up with demand with new methods being created to speed up production and new plants being created.

"From January-May this year, Key Production’s vinyl manufactured orders grew by 50%, compared to the same period in 2024. Data shows that the average order quantity of vinyl has increased by 41% per individual order. Key Production provides manufacturing services primarily to the independent sector meaning that this data shows that vinyl consumption growth is not limited to and goes beyond the major label big releases."

The point is the market responds to consumer interests and we won't make progress with the topic if we pretend that the majority of consumers aren't interested in the convenience and abundance that comes from streaming/digital media etc. Now I don't think you're crazy, obviously Nvidia shareholders would much prefer us locked into forever streaming contracts versus one and done purchases but the convergence towards digital is inevitable because it is simply what the people desire. Around it there are valuable discussions to be had, including rights & keeping physical alive even if it is a niche. 

I don't know anybody who prefers their newer LED LCD picture or speakers over my Plasma. My Plasma is 14 years old and still works. It was also quite cheap when I bought it as Plasma costs had been reduced considerably over the years. Like LCD territory cheap.  They stopped making Plasma Tv's around 2015 and they don't make most parts for them anymore either.

I'm not saying people have no power to stop what some groups are pushing. I'm just saying those groups are doing a very good job of getting the herd to go where they want. That doesn't mean some of them don't stray and are very difficult to round up.

The point is like your Nvidia reference. There's a direction groups are all heading and they want everyone to follow, and to the benefit of the few in the group, more and more.

I'm not really disagreeing with your points. I'm disagreeing with the intention behind it all and the supposed understanding everyone has about where this eventually leads.