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I thought after the DVD era surely we'd get something more akin to SD cards or flash drives instead of more discs, really disappointed we ended up with Blu Ray.
That ship sailed and was sunk many years ago. I'll educate my kid to play real games from decades ago, and if he really wants to rent games he can work his ass off to buy them. Same reason I prefer GoG over Steam -- at least I can download the installers and store them, and there is no string attached.
> Same reason I prefer GoG over Steam -- at least I can download the installers and store them, and there is no string attached. Mostly. GoG sells games with DRM now and they don't tell players about it in advance either. Not only are there many multiplayer games with DRM on GoG but there are also single player games. For one example see https://www.gog.com/en/game/cult_of_the_lamb I have no idea why they allowed tha…
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Sony doesnt have a monopoly on gaming. There is PC, mobile, Steam, Nintendo, Apple desktop, etc. There are also retro games consoles like Mod64. You don't invest in a game console it is an entertainment expense. You can sell your used PS5 if you disagree with the direction.
They have a monopoly on disks for the PlayStation.
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On PC you can fight this by buying from GOG DRM-free digital storefront or the second more sinister option
Gog might consider linux more, which will make me reconsider it. I stopped buying from them because the lack of linux support
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Plenty of PC games, the linux distros that run steam are great too!
Can you backup steam games and run them without steam?
If you want to guarantee that you can backup your PC games and run them without a client, then there is always https://www.gog.com/
I don't own a PS5, I do own a PS4 however and still buy physical copies of games - some of which of late have been secondhand from CeX - because 1. I don't like renting content, 2. I hate DRM, 3. physical copies are harder to censor. Sony recently expunged copies of movies people had bought, so I honestly don't trust them not to do the same with games. Also, they announced the closure of the PS3 store, so that's even…
Actually, thinking about this now, I tried to play PS1 games on my PSP about two years ago, but couldn't because they needed to be (re-)authenticated. Sadly, there's NO way to authenticate PS1/PSP games on PSP anymore. Even connecting it to the PS3 via USB and trying to authenticate it didn't work. (At least PS1 games still work on PS3 for now, though.)
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Hopefully emulation and piracy will continue to provide a reasonable check valve on this getting too far out of control. I don't personally engage in either at present outside of an old homebrewed Wii U, but I feel like the existence of those is important to remind the digital storefront/platform owners that at the end of the day they aren't actually the only game in town. Either that or eventually we'll have to get…
I would attribute Disney's use of scarcity as a primary means to drive film and TV box office and streaming dollars in the Star Wars franchise. This is already under threat due to the Star Wars AI videos being released on Youtube, seemingly without constraint as of yet. The videos are not Hollywood quality [0], however they circumvent rules Disney can't easily break like using the likeness of any actor at any age in…
> [0] I suppose idealized Hollywood quality. They are better than some films.
Not only that, but Disney has diluted the the average quality of Star Wars by a huge amount over the past decade. It used to be a big deal culturally every time something official came out in theaters or on TV. Nowadays, there has been enough stuff that even the hardcore fans don't enjoy (even if not everyone agrees on exactly which ones are the worst, overall very few people like everything).
It's a lot easier to make something set in the Star Wars universe that's a realistic level of quality (and potentially competitive with whatever happens to the current iteration of shows/movies) when the bar has also been lowered towards what the current level of AI tooling can produce.
One of the selling points of consoles is the secondhand market, and the physical games. If digital only, then consoles have fewer differentiators to PCs, and PCs let you play online without a subscription. It's not a given, but it's a plausible future that steam boxes outsell playstations, and that Sony loses its lucrative cut of game sales because people moved to PC since there was no differentiator for consoles oth…
They must think platform-exclusives titles are the differentiator.
Nintendo has been the only one really good at that, and even there, they're slipping.
For example, the Switch 2 has been out for a year and has no exclusive Mario or Zelda games yet. They announced another Zelda remake.
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Off topic, XKCD should put the original publication date on the page. This one references specific years, and I could tell it's from 2009 after thinking about it, but doesn't hit the same way.
I tend to read this shortly after the strip, because I am that stupid. Also because there is no easy mouseover on android. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/606:_Cutting_Edge