• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Gee…

    And how many digital editions were sold to people who wished they could have gotten one with a disc drive?

    The numbers are in, Sony. Don’t sit there and say ‘Nobody wants to buy discs anymore.’ Almost everyone. Almost everyone wants to buy discs anymore.

    • Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works
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      25 days ago

      Any time a company says “People don’t want x” what they mean is “We don’t want people to want x”, usually due to money, effort, control, or a mixture of the three.

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        24 days ago

        Because it all routes through one digital storefront without the possibility of competition, so digital pricing on console storefronts is artificially high.

        Plus, they’ve already shut down stores on older consoles and people have lost games. That’s less likely as console companies learn how to make competent digital storefronts and account systems, many have felt the burn of losing all your digital purchases on console and won’t let it happen twice.

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        24 days ago

        We have one shop, we dont own the games, unwarranted bans are a thing - locking you out of your games, sales are shit tier and they keep adding advertising and necessitating online.

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      24 days ago

      I ended up with a disc console, but I admit it makes up a minority of my usage. I just wanted to be able to play old PS4 games, and blu-ray movies. Most of the games I play are on PS+ or purchased digitally.