GOG barely turns a profit most years, sadly. PC gamers (and publishers) overwhelmingly choose the option locked down with DRM.

Yeah haha the Australian ratings board are sticklers; we didn't even get an R18 rating for games here til like 2012, before that stuff had to be censored.

When I was a kid the ratings stamps were a lot less intrusive, but in the early 2000s they updated them to this, probably too many parents accidentally buying GTA for their kid and catching them murdering strippers and shit lmao

Me too, and even as they are smaller I think the PSP and the NS1 also have excellent box arts ratios (PSP is a small line on top, NS1 a square at the left top corner) that value them, and another reason I completely abhor any GKC or dislike the NS2 editions, there is a wall of text in the front cover bottom on top of it.

NS2 native games (that are not GKC) are fine, the bar on top is a bit bigger than the one on PSP games and definitely not as good as the square from NS1, but the red boxes they come with look good.

Blue boxes for PS, green boxes for XB and red boxes for NS look really pleasing lined sideways when stored but not lined to show the spines.

I really like this platform distinct color coding we have currently, and the color and even the stronger tone from all three of them look good and suit them.

In Germany the tiers are 0 (white), 6 (yellow), 12 (green), 16 (blue) and 18 (red):

Both tiers (and their color code) are the same for video games and for movies... but most movie covers (DVD, Blu-ray and UltraHD) have a flip cover. So you flip the cover and on its back is the same cover without the age restriction logo (and often also without the barcode). Some movies even have the German cover front and an international cover on the back.

I wish flip covers were the standard for video games,too.

That thing is huge tho, lol. And it's actually shaped kinda like the Brazilian flag even xD.

Yeah, reversible covers are nice, usually when they happen it is with a different cover art tho.

I do have Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth games for the PS4, and 1 and 2 have different reversible cover arts, but 3 has the same cover art as the reversible for some reason. The USA version.

Reversible covers also can happen when something minor happen to the box and art, so you could flip it if the back art is still good.

Fun fact... Sony are not the only ones who manufacture bluray/dvd/cd discs. Several other companies produce them and will continue to do so as long as there are customers who need them. So music and movies and games will still be made on physical media..... just not from Sony.

Somebody needs to make a PS video game music video using these songs and bombard the SNY social accounts with them.

Even better if the song or artist is tied to SNY records music.

The 85% number is a cherry-picked lie. For all of 2025 the number was 78% digital, not 85% as per Sony's records. And they count $1 indie games the same as a $70 purchase. 

The 85% number is a cherry-picked lie. For all of 2025 the number was 78% digital, not 85% as per Sony's records. And they count $1 indie games the same as a $70 purchase. 

The 85% number is a cherry-picked lie. For all of 2025 the number was 78% digital, not 85% as per Sony's records. And they count $1 indie games the same as a $70 purchase. 

You would be surprised how easy it is to restore a disc drive. PS2 drives go out a lot but there's a program you can use to recalibrate them. Gamecube drives have surface-mount capacitors that just need replacing. It's a laser that reads data, with a belt and a small electric motor in it. Lots of modern mods let you download the game to an HDD instead of constantly read from the disc. This saves the drive from running 24/7 and massively extends its life. It's basically what the 360 and PS3 did with game installs off the disk. If you were to store a disc drive for 100 years you would need to replace the belt, caps, gears, and grease. The rest would be fine as long as the caps didn't leak, but changing caps to a non-corrosive substance before storage would fix that. 

Also there's FPGA devices or reproducing a system PCB, Chips, and all. The Neo Geo is being remade with all the original chips this winter. FPGA is just a chip that can morph into any other chip you need. People thought I was crazy back in 2017 when I predicted an FPGA PS1. Jokes on them, though. SuperStation One successfully shipped to early adopters. So don't hand-wave my prediction that we will be reproducing 1-1 clones of all consoles eventually. 

Disc drives for computers are going to comeback like Vynl. Game consoles coming with a disc drive really satisfied the market for Blu-Rays. Once that's gone a lot of these little drive manufacturers will be going from producing for Sony/MS to producing directly for consumers. That means they can charge more. Also, companies that reproduce disk versions of Indie games will be forced to switch to making their products for PCs and that in turn will make PC disc drives become desirable again. Finally, heat waves tend to knockout internet and as the planet gets hotter people are going to realize they need something for when the internet goes out. 

It's not going to make a massive comeback. But it will persist and be a big industry like vinyl. 

The thing, this year i stopped buying games.
Gaming industry right now is so terrible.
95% of games are released unfished and they need day 1 patch to even work properly. A lot of thing that were unlockable before are now sold as Premium Editions that cost almost as much as base game.
Decision by Sony to not release games on disk anymore just made me even more sure to stop support gaming.
But if you still buying games and you do it digitally and you say that you dont care about disk then you are in for very rude awakening.
If SKG laws dont get pass then you people are screwed.
Companies will do the same thing they are doing to movies, they will licence things like music for year or two and when it expire they will just remove game from your library . People who are 100% digital dont get that but once they start removing their games from library these same people who said they dont care about disks will be the first one to come here and complain.
Just waiting to see if people have even little brain to call Sony and stop supporting them or if they are what Sony (and i) think, just a mindless sheeps who will eat any crap thrown at them.