No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

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NR7 said:

No new disc games​

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Goosfrabba said:
Nintendo should eventually pull a Sony and create a video of how to share a game, with them handing over the box with the Game Key Card
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Problem with Switch 2 that kill Game Key cards for me is the price of Express SD cards. Anything above 512GB is next to impossible to source and when you do find them, cost almost the same as a new console.

They should have used Nvme :(
 
To keep the people happy, they should put a limit on how many times you can dowload your non ownership thing.

Like 200 times baba, you need to pay again.

Luckily they can remove it from your library at any time too.
 
I have a box of maybe 100 sealed Xbox One/Series and PS4/5 games which I bought over a few years while Game Pass etc. was gaining popularity. Seems discs are gaining value again?
 
OT. I have already posted it in the Stop Killing Games thread. Not having physical gaming media relates to this.


ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits'​


Gibbons was responding to a comment made by California state assemblymember Chris Ward—who introduced the bill—regarding the possibility of keeping games alive with private servers. "Minecraft is currently hosted by community servers, Call of Duty [has] community servers, so it's an option that is out there, in existence here today."

Gibbons cut in: "They're illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, for Minecraft, has gotten a lot of criticism because of those community servers not employing the same safety standards that Microsoft does on their Minecraft servers."

Asked by California state senator Caroline Menjivar as to whether this was "like the black market of videogames?" Gibbons responded "Yes. In fact, we consider it piracy. We have lawsuits, two pending lawsuits, against private servers right now, and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in their Notorious Markets Reports on counterfeiting and piracy has named some of these big private servers as a notorious market." A notorious market refers to a market where intellectual property infringement is rife—think something like The Pirate Bay.
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They want to ring fence their EULAs. Eliminating physical media takes ownership out of the perpetual formula in the purview of Intellectual Property. Imagine having a LAN party, playing Doom, and Microsoft via law enforcement raids it because it doesn't adhere to their safety standards. They want to encapsulate all of this online (in the "cloud") where they can exercise control. A lot of this falls outside the scope of gaming as well, governments are also actively clamping down on communities in whatever shape or form. In argument it is not the size (or volume) of the installation media, but to remove the property from the user (or owner).
 
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