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Title: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 01 July 2026, 15:54:28: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/ (https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/)

Sony already has a record of removing games and movies from accounts that paid for them.
Now they kill the 2nd hand resell market, borrowing/testing before purchase, purchasing at ANY discounted price from retailers, and the risk of having the title delisted.

The most anti-consumer move Sony could possibly make.
Title: Re: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 01 July 2026, 15:56:30: I just reposted this old video on another forum... It had been published by Sony back in 2013 to mock XBox:

How they have fallen ...
Title: Re: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 02 July 2026, 08:09:49: Realistically, all the game "Types" have already come out.

Humanity has produced enough "games" for a lifetime. That being, no more games need to be invented.

This is the case with music, it is the case with paintings, it is now the case with games.
Title: Re: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: Findecanor on Thu, 02 July 2026, 08:51:29: Quote from: tp4tissue on Thu, 02 July 2026, 08:09:49

Humanity has produced enough "games" for a lifetime. That being, no more games need to be invented.

"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end."

Edit: This above, is supposedly from a 1840's patent clerk and has often been rephrased as "Everything that could be be invented has already been invented".
Title: Re: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 02 July 2026, 12:40:38: The beginning and the end are processing compartmentalizations. They are not realities.

What was, is, and will be are entirely parallel and occur simultaneously.
Title: Re: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: noisyturtle on Thu, 02 July 2026, 17:44:58: Quote from: tp4tissue on Thu, 02 July 2026, 08:09:49
Realistically, all the game "Types" have already come out.

Humanity has produced enough "games" for a lifetime. That being, no more games need to be invented.

This is the case with music, it is the case with paintings, it is now the case with games.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-Charles H. Duell, 1899

thank goodness we haven't had any new inventions since the turn of the last century
Title: Re: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: lazyGamer on Sun, 12 July 2026, 03:30:08: Convenience is great... until it's your favorite game that disappears.
Title: Re: I'm done buying Sony game consoles forever
Post by: Aljami25 on Thu, 16 July 2026, 06:52:09: If this really happens, that's a big reason for me to keep buying physical games. I like actually owning what I pay for.