Remember when Sony released this: https://youtu.be/kWSIFh8ICaA
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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And this will be me shifting to all PC gaming. If I must go digital only, I would rather give my money to Steam. Sony has proven itself not the most trustable with digital content (example the recent purge of movies people purchased)
i mean it still sucks compared to reselling, but its possible to share your library on steam with friends at least.
best store would be gog but as a gamer on linux its not as easy as it should be.
"Their sales plummeted and, just like that, they started selling physical discs again" (but it was too late as people's tastes and interests moved on).
Just staggeringly anti-consumer. I guess this will be my last console generation then, I refuse to not have a disc drive and no second hand market
They know very well what they are doing. The market is saturated with good games, and they want to cut off the second hand market entirely. You cannot resell digital games.
This could get interesting with the EU. It was ruled that the customer has the right to sell his license.
If someone defends this, Sony must provide a way to do that.
And we know they will take them from you like those movies.
Emulation is getting better each day, why not get a laptop that's pretty much a (portable) console on steroids? Or just flash SteamOS or something on your PlayStation if you're into that
Also a lot easier to borrow games from websites like Vimm's Lair/Internet Archive
I am not a fan of discs (i can't even remember when i last used one tbh, must be decades), but i am a fan of conservation and transferable licences. This move creates a completely unpreservable generation of video games until the thing gets jailbroken to hell and back, which can take years - whatever games appear and disappear in that timeframe might be lost forever. Damn, at least you can resell Nintendos Game Keycards.
I remember a certain PS4 promo of one Sony exec handing a game to another after after the reveal of the Xbox one. Competition is a good thing
No resale, no buy.
Companies think and make decisions in this way all the time, against consumer planned obsolescence is a fundamental part of their philosophy. Usually it is in ways that are too technical or esoteric for the general user to follow but here they have forgot themselves and made a play that is obvious to a great many of their customers.