They can do all this because people keep giving them money.
Too many people make it about brand identity than simply playing games.
Media rights expiring surely isn’t on them.
Why can’t they renew them?
Second point isnt that?
What is it then?
They’re also shutting down PS3 and PSVita store access, to add insult to injury.
At some point it doesnt make much sense to support almost dead infrastructure. Probably wasnt making them money anymore.
I mean look at the 3DS, Wii and Wii U…They closed way earlier than Sony. ^(Which is a bad thing done by Nintendo.)
This is what happens when their only competitor is a mindless Microslop.
Nintendo carved out their niche and Sony has no chance against them in that market after abandoning AAA and AA single player games in favor of trash service games.
So, nothing to look forward to. This is why you’re so behind in sales.
Playstation customer since my first job at McDonalds let me buy the original first model PSX, all the way through the PS5 — fuuuuuuuuck you Sony. I’ve got a PC and you can eat 10 tons of my shit right now with this and your cancellation of PC support. We’ll see who wins.
The entire reason I’ve ever bought consoles and games was because I could get used games at a bargain and also sell my old consoles and game collections when I’m done with them. I can’t imagine that I’m the only person who looked at it this way.
Now console producers pull shit like this when they can’t even claim to be more user friendly than PC because SteamOS is a real competitor.
Well I guess it was good while it lasted, at least until the last few years when greed fully took over. Microsoft is already on it’s last leg and Sony and Nintendo are going to follow eventually.
To reduce costs on printing and to reflect Sony’s vision, they are dropping the L from the name of the console.
lol
They’re not dropping it, they’re hoping you take it.
But leave them with the L.
By not including the extra plastic L on the console, Sony realized it could save 7 cents per console.
You joke but that’s why stick drift is an issue now.
And with projected sales of 14 consoles after these decisions, that’s almost a whole buck of savings!
Yeah, that’s the end of PlayStation for me. Hopefully someone else will come out with something decent.
Sega needs to return now
Meh, I’m done with consoles. The exclusives will come to emulators eventually, and there will be plenty of PC games in the meantime.
So, this means mandatory proprietary hardware just to play the four or five true permanent exclusives that will be on the PS6 throughout its entire lifetime, given that everything else will eventually come to PC, and you don’t actually own any of your digital content, meaning that they can revoke your access to your purchases without notice at any point if they choose to do so.
People will still buy it though, that’s the saddest part.
Good thing Sony’s first party output is easy to ignore. Just go watch Wolverine and all the rest of their games on YouTube since they’re basically interactive movies.
Right, the only PS5 exclusive I would love to have on PC is Astro Bot.
They’ve already said they’ve stopped porting to PC
They have but others have not. GTA will come to PC. GoW Faye likely wont.
I’d rather wait and emulate the next spiderman and Wolverine game tbh.
Actually, the 2026 strategy and business environment report from Sony simply removed the line “Will continue its efforts to deploy its first-party titles to multiple platforms such as PC” from their priorities list, but did not outright state that they won’t port games to PC anymore, as many journalists misinterpreted, the report simply states that it isn’t a priority anymore due to mitigated revenue. The main concern within the report seems to be that near simultaneous releases on PC are effectively cannibalizing PS5 hardware sales, so you might still expect PC releases but further down the line compared to the current 1-2 years window, maybe previous generation games released on PC, not current generation.
The removal of physical games isn’t that big of a deal to me as someone who mostly plays on PC, and the only physical PC games I’ve bought in the last decade and a half were touhou games I imported off Yahoo auctions.
Honesty I wonder why that actually became so normalized on PC while it didn’t on consoles. I’m sure Steam has a big role in it.
I think the main reason for this on PC has been the fact that there’s been piracy/licensing for so long. We used to have cd keys to prove you were using the legit disc. You bought a license, and there were cdchecks. Once you were able to prove ownership with a key instead of a disc, and create your own offline installers too? All the reasons to fight against it were gone. On consoles you can’t make offline backups. You can’t play without constant online license checks. And once the license date rolls over you can’t play anyway.
My gog backup, I can install offline tomorrow never touch the Internet and be fine.
It’s less of a big deal on PCs because there is no store monopoly, near infinite backward compatibility, and piracy (which was historically viable on consoles but has become less so over time).
Bet the Sony fanboys wish they didn’t make so much fun of the Xbox one’s digital plans now. Xbox’s digital plan had:
- digital reselling
- digital game lending
- retail pricing competition
PlayStation buyers will definitely not get the first 2, and Sony will likely prevent the third.
“Arrogant sony” is well and truly back.
Yeah. The Xbox One’s initial digital library plans were actually pretty compelling. The ability to lend and sell licenses was actually pretty neat, but they had to cancel it with the backlash to the announcement that you’d have a license code tied to the disc.
Honestly, if Xbox had ditched physical entirely that generation instead of causing the confusion around requiring the digital license despite having a disc I think it would have been better-received. That or going to a 2-tiered system where you had to have the disc in the machine to play games that hadn’t initially been a digital download.
Oh, and ditching the Kinnect bullshit.
definitely end of an era.
I’m not buying a console without physical media.Sony can kill the second hand market if they want, but that was the last thing that differentiated them from Steam. Good bye Playstation, i’ll remember you fondly.
Rest in piss
It warms my heart to see that EVERY comment on Sony’s blog post about it is negative. Hope the decision ends up biting Sony in the ass, but even if not, at least people weren’t silent about it.
EDIT: and they’re being yelled at everywhere else on the internet that people can post as well. Good.
