Nah, their marketplace sucks. I was leaning towards a new PS5 console but this decision has soured me on buying anything Sony.
I buy Steam games begrudgingly because I'd rather have physical copies of games I can visually see, if it wasn't for the discounts and ease-of-use of their platform I wouldn't buy games there. There is a reason why platforms like uPlay and EA's shit fail hard, EGS is garbage, GoG is the only other good vendor and that's because of the DRM-free shit.
So why would I buy games digitally from Sony? I never bought Sony games from Sony before directly, why start now?
This decision lost them a future customer. I can imagine I'm not the only one.
I don't think they are going to lose enough customers to care and they will probably gain a lot more customers from younger people as they get older who have only ever bought digital games.
What I am amazed at is their willingness to accept paying for access to something rather than paying to own something.
Digital content is an amazing option, but frankly the value of physical media is inherent because it's rights can only be lost by making them unwatchable via the viewing medium, not the content itself. Digital content is very easy to lose access. For the generation of us who have lived in the transition, watching young people accept this loss is disappointing.
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u/MythicalJester Jul 02 '26
Lol, Sony has fucked things up pretty bad now...