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You can’t draw any conclusions on console sales alone. I also bought the disc version, despite predomenantly buying digital releases.
It’s more expensive but not that much more expensive. The difference was in the ballpark 50 bucks or so. On a 500 to 700 euro or so purchase (by the time you add a controller, charging stand, games etc.) this is peanuts.
I didn’t buy the disc version because I needed it for physical games, I bought it to have the option.
For the record I hate that it’s going away. But i’d be lying if I said I didn’t get it.
I’d argue that that is exactly what you voted for. The option to still have physical media.
You may well have been buying mostly digital games, but you DID buy the console with a disk drive for a reason.
Somebody might buy a mountain bike, doesn’t make the company they bought it from responsible for supplying a course to use it on.
Huh? What is this analogy? Doesn’t make sense to me. In this case, your mountain bike provider is the sole provider of courses in the world and is now deciding to get rid of all off-road courses. Only asphalt remains.
Right, but why would they keep maintenance on these courses going if nobody uses them and only uses their mountainbike to ride to work, over the asphalt? Why not focus on making them better for that instead?
The community at large stopped buying games on disc. Evidently to the point Sony feels confident enough to axe them entirely without too much noise. So far it seems to me they are right, I don’t really see the public outrage you can get with other controversies like the launch state of some games.
And why wouldn’t they honestly, this has been pretty much the reality in the PC landscape since the PS3 era and also XBOX is also already pretty much there.
And yeah, technically on the PC there is “comptetition” in terms of other digital storefronts but it’s mostly the publisher that decide where you buy their game, not you. So in practice it’s highly debateable how much that actually works as proper competition for the consumer. In practice you just have a bunch of extra bloat installed…
You might not have that competion on the Playstation, but Sony is now going to have to keep the Playstation interesting to people without offline disc deals people could score elsewhere, we’ll see how they manage…
I suppose we’ll see, but if the numbers were real, seems 15% still bought physical. I’m one of those. I pretty much only buy games physically. I wouldn’t mind if they kept selling the mountain bike (disc drive) and let others maintain the roads of their own volition. (Super rare games, etc.)