Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership

It’s a teaser for a game that never came out, I’m pretty sure he had complications with studios. What’s the point of keeping a short demo of a game that was canceled?

You could release DRM free copies that users can copy to any form of media they like. If you are using DRM and complaining about this I have no respect for you.

I’ll call bull on the game removal front. Pretty sure that was Konami being shitsticks when they had the falling out.

You are spot on the GoG front though. If he really cared about ownership he would of put it on the storefront and not hid behind the DRM.

Complete fucking bullshit. Konami literally did that and caused a break with Kojima because of it

P.T. was the announcement teaser that Kojima was to be directing Silent Hills with del Toro but then Konami cancelled it as the company exited the video game industry and Kojima left to found their own studio.

Why blame Kojima for something Konami did without their involvement at all and long after they’d left the company?

I haven't bought a console in over a decade, but I was under the impression that most/all "physical" copies these days were little more then digital download codes on discs or in cases. How many actually hold the whole game, enough to qualify as "owning" it?

Fair enough. Apparently that was 12 years ago already. Damn, where did the years go?

But yeah Kojima is just doing cheap lip service here. He never cared about game preservation at all. Sorry for the people here that worship him like a god but he never chose game preservation when he actually did have full reign.

Sorry to kind of ignore your question, but I think it misses the point.

Even with only the partial game data on the disc, the disc still held the rights to the game. Therefore, the rights were transferrable. That is to say, you could still sell your disc and it would have value to the next owner.

When you are forced to buy the game directly from the PlayStation store, your game license is no longer transferable. You can't sell your old games, and you can't buy used games from someone else.

Most discs still contain the full game, most physical releases contain discs of the full game

Some physical releases are just an empty case with a code. Some Nintendo Switch cartridges are just license dongles for the game download.

You’ve never owned a game. You’ve only ever licensed a game. This is true for all software. Removing the physical medium of distribution just allows the copyright cartel the control it has always wanted over something you paid for. But they have been hoodwinking consumers over what “purchase” and “buy” and “own” mean. Technically speaking, any game company could send you a C&D and tell you to stop playing their game forever, your license is revoked, and if you ever played it again they could sue for damages. Doubtful they would, as I doubt it would be worth their time; but this does mean they have the right to just decide their work is no longer available and vanish all digital copies; and they could also make all physical discs stop working through system software updates.

At the end of the day discs are not the important part consumer protection and the right of first sale in the digital space just need to be created to fix this mess. I also wonder if the Tariff tomfullery was a factor as they couldn't have any consistency of cost and profit like before.

Not true for the majority of games, however there have been a few that have done this or something like this.

Been seeing this sentiment a lot in the wake of the news and want to stress, most games still come on disc these days. FF7 Rebirth, for example, is so big it comes on two.

He took it off the store? I thought it was the company, after he was fired.

All of them contain the entire game. The only functional difference over the early days is that the game data isn’t read from disc while you play.

Have you tried the death stranding series? I just finished 2 yesterday. It was fantastic. In both, you can tailor your experience - skip cut scenes, drop difficulty to 'story' for frustrating fights, etc. But those games tell a story in a way only video games can. And all the little flourishes that emotionally connect you to your character, like rocking the controller to sooth the baby sealed in your chest pod, are so charming and affecting.