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This kind of news should be paired with the pre-order numbers of GTA6. To better understand how many of the Sony users actually care about this.
Hint: it's not a lot.
Well yeah, pretty much no one cares. I hate this move by Sony mostly because used physical games are so cheap, even cheaper than steam sales. I used to resell games I stopped playing to get some of my money back too.
But just look at PC gaming. It's been digitized for almost 20 years and no one stopped gaming on PC. So of course the console companies saw that and decided to do the same.
The outrage feels a bit hypocritical considering how many PC gamers constantly defend valve. It isn't quite the same situation but valve is still responsible for killing physical PC games. Gamers literally helped them do it out of sheer convenience.
Of course valve did strong arm us, especially in the beginning with HL2. The controversy over HL2 ended up being nothing more than a fart in the wind and people barely remember it now. The same will likely happen with Sony.
If the ps6 fails it'll be because of other reasons.
Although pc is only digital, there is a huge difference between it and consoles: you don't have to buy from steam to get your games cheap, There is a huge amount of stores that sell steam keys at a fraction of their cost. There's bundles and if you don't want steam, there's also gog, itch...
If sony goes all digital, you'll only have sony to buy games.
But you can buy digital codes for ps5 on other stores like Amazon right now, so is it really that different? And steam is still more expensive than used physical games even with the gray market keys. The fact is that you're still just buying games for steam at the end of the day.
Steam made gaming cost more money. The same will happen with Sony. You can look up prices on steam and compare them to used console games on eBay/Amazon and see that the physical games are significantly cheaper even when steam is having a sale.
Valve did a great job tricking PC gamers into believing they're saving money when in reality, the used physical game market was always cheaper than digital.
Keys you buy on amazon for ps5 are created by sony so they dictate the price. Devs on steam can create their own keys to sell outside steam. That's why you see keys in bundle on humble or fanatical for steam and you don't see them for ps5.
Unless you have an extreme FOMO, you can get many games for pennies when they bundle them or when they go on deep sale (something that, btw, is not dictated by steam but by the dev/pubblisher).
Just see this month's humble monthly or last month's and tell me you can find that many games for so little money on physical.
On top of that, as I said, GoG, itch and epic exist, and they are not Steam so you don't need Steam to play.
I'll just add the tangent: imaging pre-ordering a digital-only release.
"Pretty please, Take Two, can I give you my money in exchange for nothing at all of value?"
What even is this world. What have they done to us.
What if they run out of bytes because everyone is downloading at the same time? Preordering allows you to have your bytes to download already assigned., right?
I like to imagine that this is the answer they give if you ask the reason to preorder a digital game several months ahead its launch.
That you think strips of paper, or numbers on a screen have an equivalent value to your time and labor is not Sony's fault...
You don't need a lot of people. I don't remember the exact percentage but it's something like if 10% of the population is willing to show support your cause it's enough to get a law passed. Just look at SKG initiative. It took a million Europeans to get the political ball rolling not just in the EU but also in California. What we need is a continuation of SKG where digital purchases of products actually gives us ownership over said product and not just a use license where companies like Sony can do whatever they want with your purchase.