Sony's Disc-Free 2028 Plan Hands it Total Price Control, Dutch Group Warns in Exclusive Wccftech Statement as €400M Lawsuit Escalates

The worse part is that Sony is already using adaptive pricing in their online store. Every user has a profile and the prices are based on previous behavior. Users who spent a lot and impulsively buy games no matter if they're on sale will pay more.

Greed is a demon.

But what if you already bought a console? It shouldn't be held hostage by Sony selling games at 100$ in the future.
A PC without Steam is still a PC.

This is a feature they're rolling out, specifically with an eye towards the PS6. As far as I'm aware, that console hasn't even been released yet.

If Sony is retailing games for $100 on their new console, that would strongly dissuade me from buying the console.

A PC without Steam is still a PC.

When the PS2 released, it was a cheaper blueray player than the current iteration of retail blueray players. People would buy the console just to watch movies.

The direction consoles have gone make them more like PCs with a home entertainment configuration than video game machines with some extra bells and whistles.

PS2 was a cheap DVD player, PS3 was a cheap Blu-Ray player, but your point stands.

If we can't choose to buy physical games, we need to have the option of where we can digitally buy them.

Not on a Sony platform.

I hope people will just stop playing on PlayStation (or any console for that matter) and go over to PC with Steam (and 🏴‍☠️).

Consoles, the game prices and the practices of these corporations ain’t worth the money, time and effort.

All resistance is futile, unless (the vast majority of) people will not buy it at all. But they, as usual, will do that anyway, no matter what.

Most people seem to not see the longterm implications of things or just don't understand or care.

Sony:

The console market has ceded market share to PC over the past few decades specifically because a growing portion of the market sees that it's cheaper over time. Everyone knows about Steam sales being better than the equivalent on consoles, whether they know it's because of increased market competition or not. More and more people have shown that they're doing the math on subscriptions to play online and realizing that it's not a good deal. When you cut out the physical market and its own methods of keeping purchase prices down, more people still will do the math and decide not to engage.

I agree that discs are outdated and can't hold enough data for the whole game and they should turn to cartridges.

What if we find a compromise? Instead of getting rid of discs entirely, perhaps Sony could make them smaller. Like some kind of... _mini-disc_? 😛

We just need to return to these bad boys.

I foresee a future of jail broken PlayStations and games on flash drives. Raise the sails me mateys!