I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It’s a little weird people make it about physical games, it’s not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It’s about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.
That doesn’t bother me. If a price is higher than I want to pay, I’ll just not pay it and go play something else. There’s so much more gaming out there than anybody could ever have time to get through in a hundred lifetimes.
I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It’s a little weird people make it about physical games, it’s not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It’s about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.
I think it’s more about access. There’s a lot of countries that rely on physical media because the online store doesn’t exist for them.
That doesn’t bother me. If a price is higher than I want to pay, I’ll just not pay it and go play something else. There’s so much more gaming out there than anybody could ever have time to get through in a hundred lifetimes.