According to Circana, the physical market has halved in the past three years, and potential US tariffs on Mexico aren’t going to help the physical game market. The longer it takes Sony to release a PS6, the less likely it is that it will have a disc drive.
If they want to keep me on their platform they’ll probably have to, otherwise it’s gonna be a Linux PC for me with all the hassle PC gaming means in my eyes.
Can’t wait to buy physical copies of the 2 ps6 exclusives
Don’t forget the part where those physical games mean nothing. Requiring day 1 patches. Meaning, the day those sony servers die, the day after if you’ve never played that game before? The disc does nothing. It just points to a download, on server, which in this scenario is offline.
Meanwhile, you can still play a ps2 game, on ps2 hardware, and always will be able to. Hell sony could cease to exist, and you can still play GTA Vice City on PS2 50 years from now.
I know PS3s online services have gone offline, but I wonder if this trend of “here’s a disc, it requires a download” started on the ps3, or the ps4.
I wonder if I could still buy a disc, and play the game tomorrow.
This is an important topic for game preservation. Makes me wonder if there is a life expectancy for the parts in a PS2?
Of course there is, capacitors go bad, other parts stop working.
The only fully guaranteed method of preservation is via emulation.
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What? They don’t “require” a day-one patch to play. Disconnect a PS5 from the internet, pop a new game in the drive and it will play just fine without any patches, albeit with whatever bugs the game shipped with (which is a whole different story)
I think that’s their point, the quality of games has gone down the drain where the golden disc contains basically an alpha version of the game.
They pretty clearly say the “disc does nothing” which is a different, fallacious claim.
