I made an embarrassing error in this calculation lol. I didn't account for 1st party titles from which Sony gets a 65%~ cut. Around half of this $953 million may be from 1st party titles. I'm not going to do the math and extrapolation properly, but this should bring down consumer spending on physical to roughly $3.9 billion. The $6.3 billion I calculated assumed 1st party games don't exist (and therefore physical revenue is exactly 15% of consumer spending). $3.9 billion from physical vs $6.35 from digital sounds more reasonable than a tie.

No worries! I appreciate the update.

In the most tone deaf move ever, Sony announces a new vinyl player fresh off of killing physical games.

Wow, are they trying to be the most hated company?  They said nothing when PSN was down, they didn’t even try to apologize like Microsoft did when XBL went back up.

XB went down for over 20 hours everywhere while PSN wasn't down that long and only in specific regions. I wasn't even affected in Eastern Canada. The last time PSN went down for more than 24 hours was last year and Sony gave out 5 extra days of PS Plus to every member. Did Xbox do that with Game Pass this week?  No, they didn't so peddle that Xbox bullshit some where else. MS isn't exactly the most consumer friendly platform to boast about these days either.   

Well, Playstation ≠ DADC ≠ Sony Electronics etc. etc.

Doesn't matter how much you hate Sony, but all of these divisions are autonomous entities that do not work in unison. 

A new vinyl player is cool, if you're into them.

Soo lets put it in this way.

Out of 100mill games

17MILLION where physical.

Those are wants. Not needs. SONY or anybody else are not obligated to make sure the used game market is thriving. By the way, the Industry has ALWAYS hated the used game market. That goes all the way back to SNES/SEGA days. 

Strange enough I don't think anybody has mention the only real concern and that is game preservation. 3 consoles in the future I should be able to access all the content I currently have. Does SONY have a plan for that? If they do the PS3 - PS4 thing at any point in the future where we lost our entire collection then definitely fuck SONY. 

Well, they addressed it, but to investors rather than customers:

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/468627/sony-to-cautiously-move-forward-with-ending-physical-game-discs-despite-backlash/

"So when we think about the future, we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we’re going to cautiously move this forward. And to this decision, we have received various opinions, people have strong views, and we understand that the community has put forth those views to us. Games are loved by many people.

"It's a form of entertainment that's loved by people, and it's connected to people's fond memories in many cases. And so we understand those emotions. We want to consider that. And in the future digital ecosystem, how do we engage the gamers is something that we would like to continue to explore. Thank you very much."

Well i got more emotionel about it then i thought i would and have been on a buying spree, got more games this few weeks then 2 years combined.(And already seeing prices increasing conan on ps3 10 bucks wtf that game was like 3 bucks forever)

Also,sony made me bite the bullet and got a physical ps5 ad on for my digital only ps5(i got for 320 on sale last year).they wont get a single fucking cent out of me for any digital crap game they offer ever again.

Actually..i feel verry responsible for what is happening since i got hundreds of digital games(many i later got physical to)i have been preaching on my yt channel for years there should ALWAYS be a option,maybe i should not have bought so many.


Games i got for use on ps5
Fairy tail2 10bucks
Visions of mana 10bucks
Towa. 7 bucks
Star ocean the divine force. 15 bucks
Yasha legends of the demon blade 10 bucks
And pre orders tales of eternia physical 30bucks

Fairy tail2 is now on" sale "on psn for 35bucks
Hahah
Hahahahahahahhaha on sale 35buckshahahahajajajja

Glorious digital only future.
Fuuuuuuugk sony