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Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Post by Anamon »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #83
fluoridation wrote: post #71

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>cheaper then a PC that can play equivalent games There are no savings to be had. What you don't pay one way you pay another. >much more reliable (i never have to mess with drivers, updates just work, etc...) So do you not own a computer? How do you avoid dealing with those issues, otherwise?

I own several computers, and I use them for work. Running games on them means either running windows or running an emulation layer, and both solutions are unreliable messes. High end graphics cards are generally very expensive and have required binary-blobs that are really hard to troubleshoot, and (in my experience) always have problems. If I want to play a video game, I turn on my PlayStation and it just works and…

That used to be my experience, too, and I always expected the PC gaming industry would have to make some serious progress on ease-of-use if they were to survive against the consoles.

What I didn't expect was how fast the consoles would catch up to PC gaming in terms of hassle, complexity, slowness, unreliability, and potential incompatibilities. PC gaming did make some progress compared to when I was juggling boot disks and editing AUTOEXEC.BAT, but consoles got so much worse so fast. In my opinion, the last time consoles were noticeably simpler than playing on PC was probably about 15 years ago.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Post by Contax »

kuerbel wrote: post #404
Contax wrote: post #342

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> Leica Cine 1 Didn't even know there was such a thing... Knowing Leica cameras, I'm afraid to ask about the price. Well, like they say: if you have to ask... :)

I think it was around 8500 euro for the 100''. They also have a smaller one for 3500!

Hey thanks. Not that I could afford even the "cheap" one, but that's less than I expected. I'm watching some videos of it and, at the very least, it's a beautiful machine.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Post by tancop »

the backlash is already massive. 5k negative comments on the official blog post and counting. ign, dexerto, local non gaming news accounts from my country all full of people in comments saying they want to go pc or xbox if sony follows through.

i know theres a lot of defeatist talk here about how physical media is dead but almost everyone is taking this as a big deal even if they buy all their games on digital. people want that choice.

the only question is if they care about it enough to get the government involved. im not 100 confident its happening but when you look at stop killing games its proof that players can organize.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Post by vel0city »

somenameforme wrote: post #345
bhelkey wrote: post #295

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When buying a gaming console, I imagine folks think more about the upfront cost ($600 for PS5 vs $1,050 for steam machine) as opposed to the total cost of ownership. The steam machine may be cheaper in the long run once you consider: * Playing PlayStation games online costs $11/month. * PlayStation games tend to be more expensive than steam games.

Steam isn't the Steam machine. If somebody's on a budget a PC you could get for a couple hundred is way more than enough to run nearly all games on Steam; $600 could get you a beast of a machine. I don't really know who the market for the Steam Machine is, because that price is kind of insane. I suppose we'll see how things look in a year or two there.

> $600 could get you a beast of a machine

Maybe if you get in your time machine and go back a few years. Not today though.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Post by galleywest200 »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #466
dogwalker5000 wrote: post #452

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> they know consumers are trapped. Gaming is a luxury good. We can all just walk away.

So are cigarettes and liquor. And pot and on and on.

The vast majority of goods are luxury goods.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Post by artisinal »

tapoxi wrote: post #209
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #178

I have a PS4pro; technically I also already own a PS5 (kid-brother arrangement; not currently in my possession). When he gets his PS6, I'll get my PS5 back... then still keep the PS4 (always been offline: RDR2; GTA5; &c). If Sony doesn't offer GTA6 on disc, offline: I'll sell the PS5, too. I just got a 5070Ti, so it's probably back to PC-MasterRace I'll go... Reasons like this [Sony's 2028 disc-stop] are exactly why…

Rockstar has already announced there's no disk for GTA 6, if you buy a physical copy it's just a download code.

So not only will a PS5 Pro and GTA6 Ultimate combo cost me €1000, I’m not even getting a disc?

I was planning to purchase a PS5 for GTA6 after the first trailer but I’m not sure about that now.

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