No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

Moosedrool said:
I'm waiting for the kid that tells me the music on the disc version is higher quality.
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In movies it does sound better on disc (thanks to Google):

While most streaming services support advanced audio formats, such as Dolby Atmos, a 4K Blu-ray will still sound far better. That's because streaming services compress the audio in order to make it a smaller file to transmit, losing detail in the process.
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Also in picture quality on disc:

4K Blu-rays look a lot better than 4K streams.
When you're watching that latest movie on a 4K stream, it's probably going to max out at around 25 Mbps. Compared to a 4K Blu-ray, you're likely watching a piece of content that hovers around 50–100 Mbps. In short, higher bitrates lead to better image quality.
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prod said:
In more than 20 years of gaming across Steam, Xbox, Nintendo and PlayStation I’ve never had a single digital game that I purchased taken from my library.
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And of course has happened for media. Since software and games are also licensed media, I don't know why it can't happen.

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Of course it actually already is happening. Sony is shutting down their PS3/PS Vita digital stores and for a while people can still have the ability to redownload these games, but for how long? Hosting is expensive.

Even already downloaded games will be lost.

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Then there was the Apple iOS "app apocalypse" of 2017. Newer Apple hardware would no longer support these games and many publishers did not bother to update them to 64-bit architecture. Just was not worth their money.

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These are all examples of how digital software (including games and media) are often an inferior choice.

So nothing is stopping Sony from cutting people off in the future (say 5-10 years) from games they spent R1400 a pop on today.
 
prod said:
In more than 20 years of gaming across Steam, Xbox, Nintendo and PlayStation I’ve never had a single digital game that I purchased taken from my library.
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Both physical and digital has the potential of loss

eg:
Physical: I lost my collection of PS2 and PC games when they broke into my long term storage while I was working abroad.
Digital: Lost my entire PS3 collection when I moved back to SA. Mainly cause Sony accounts cant change Countries and when I acquired a PS3 again, I had no access to the email address used for that account.

Reddit is also full of stories of people losing physical via fires and digital via compromised accounts. Think the only digital you can try and prevent is banned accounts and even there I have seen some false positive complaints.

So, yeah, its simply luck of the draw.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Both physical and digital has the potential of loss

eg:
Physical: I lost my collection of PS2 and PC games when they broke into my long term storage while I was working abroad.
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One can also lose one's life and family and home etc. War, natural disasters, illness, crime and so on can hit at any time.

That's not really about that. If a fire guts your collection, likely it puts you in a lot of ruin and you won't be gaming much or you might lose your passwords etc and even then lose access like that too.

With digital you're at the mercy of distributors who once the sale is made, consider further interaction with you a loss unless it's a live service game and even then, when popularity fades, they also become expenditure and they want to cut expenses because profit is No 1.

Same with this. Sony here already a few years ago got rid off key resellers, eg you could buy digital Sony games on Amazon. They later claimed - oh you can still buy physical games on Amazon. Now that loophole is gone. Regulators are going to sue them. And in the long run Sony will have to open their PSN up. Sony is a Japanese company and Japan has ZERO geopolitical clout and little economic clout against regions like the European Union which doesn't need Japan but Japan needs Europe for security and business. They even signed a new trade agreement with Europe recently and regulators will hammer Sony, way harder than they hammered Apple because there is no US government to protect Sony. Tokyo will bend over backwards to European regulators and Sony will be on their own. They will lose at the end. Their digital platform will now have to open up and that will cost them.
 
Mirai said:
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And of course has happened for media. Since software and games are also licensed media, I don't know why it can't happen.

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Of course it actually already is happening. Sony is shutting down their PS3/PS Vita digital stores and for a while people can still have the ability to redownload these games, but for how long? Hosting is expensive.

Even already downloaded games will be lost.

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Then there was the Apple iOS "app apocalypse" of 2017. Newer Apple hardware would no longer support these games and many publishers did not bother to update them to 64-bit architecture. Just was not worth their money.

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These are all examples of how digital software (including games and media) are often an inferior choice.

So nothing is stopping Sony from cutting people off in the future (say 5-10 years) from games they spent R1400 a pop on today.
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Yea but movies and music are always more of a mess. Like old racing games with music constantly get de-listed etc. We can all agree removing movies is shitty and shouldn't be done, but at the end of the day if Studio Canal didn't want to renew any agreements there's nothing they can do (of course we don't how what went down and I'm not absolving PS in the matter). I don't think they even sell movies through PS any more probably due to stuff like this.

Live service games are also not great examples, in the context of a physical vs. digital debate the discs are 100% redundant when the servers get shut down...unless you want to use them as coasters. And any digital store can revoke or kill your account, this is not news to anyone.


AlphaJohn said:
Both physical and digital has the potential of loss

eg:
Physical: I lost my collection of PS2 and PC games when they broke into my long term storage while I was working abroad.
Digital: Lost my entire PS3 collection when I moved back to SA. Mainly cause Sony accounts cant change Countries and when I acquired a PS3 again, I had no access to the email address used for that account.

Reddit is also full of stories of people losing physical via fires and digital via compromised accounts. Think the only digital you can try and prevent is banned accounts and even there I have seen some false positive complaints.

So, yeah, its simply luck of the draw.
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Yep, ironically I had my Stellar Blade copy nicked when I tried to sell it on eBay, and had to issue a full refund.

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