For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
PlayStation sold more PS5 without BD reader than the one with. Consumers have already voted
Consumers are dumb
Buy the disc system, then Its only a few physical games, and then youd have saved the money a disc drive would cost
Ive gotten all physical games i have, for 70% of the price sony sells them for on their digital store
Incl brand new releases
And i own it forever
“And i own it forever”
We are not talking about the PS2 or even PS3 here though. These new games do not fit on a disk and require constant updates and connection to servers. Any game that requires you to connect to the internet, even if you own the disc, you don’t really own. They can shut that down anytime they feel like it.
Sony has rigged the game though, and you’ve bought into it.
Your physical discs are only as good as your ability to download the game files and day-one patches from their servers. For the average user, there really is no benefit to having a disc.
I hate it, but Sony made the choice for us as far back as the PS3.
It’s kinda not only customers fault. Sony charges much for the bd version plus 9/10 of the games require huge downloads and installs even if they are physical. Most people just don’t see the point anymore.
If the disk cannot install and play the full game, then it holds little value as physical media for preservation. At that point the only value it has is for collectors.
Or someone who wants to resell it when they’re done playing it. Us old dudes did that often. You could always get a little of the cash back from a game you could use to put toward a new game. With digital it’s full price and no resale.
you mean the days when a $80 game could be resold for $5?
Only to GameStop. You could get more money for them selling on eBay or outright.
According to Circana (formerly NPD), as of October of last year, 82% of PS5s were the disc version.
Do you have a source for that? Because I know for a long time the disc version outsold the digital by a pretty wide margin. And the pro doesn’t count because it doesn’t offer a disc option.
I’m pretty sure that was in the media release from Sony but I could be mistaken