Nobody makes decisions on manufacturing lines like that. What they are doing with the repurposing of plants is expensive and time-consuming. Decision likely had to have been signed off by Totoki himself.
Microlenses basically are involved in anything lasers are afaik.
Everything you pay for should have the same consumer ownership expectations.
Optical sensors I believe.
Honestly, this may have been planned a long time, but it's because Xbox is too busy playing grab-ass with itself that Sony dropped this when they did. Now the "news" cycle will just be about how Microsoft is imploding.
Exactly, a lot more gamers would wait for a significant discount instead. But a lot of "suits" are greedy and stupid.
Surveillance state goes vrrroooommmmmm
And Flock "safety" cameras tied into those "AI data centers, totally bros"
Unfortunately the EU ain't gonna do shit. Something something let them monopolize game sales something something good for the environment.
I was watching a thing the other day where they were showing usb cables that looked like normal bog-standard ones, but actually contained keyloggers and their own wi-fi stack... Its shocking how vulnerable we all are to intentional attack!
Sales structure of PlayStation games only.Not sure how a change to the sales structure of games doesn't affect the makers of said games, but ok.
With that said, hasn't it always been the publishers pushing for the all-digital future as a way of ending used games?
Big publishers love this. Just like they loved the always online DRM in 2013.
Not much chance of that happening. The lost sales from principled disc bros with be eclipsed by the complete lack of a used game market. Have you seen how much GameStop brings in on used PlayStation games? That would all go to Sony and the publishers now. I estimate that figure surpasses the lost "principled disc bro" lost sales with relative ease.
They already have this option available to them, if they do indeed value killing second hand sales more highly than being able to make physical sales at all.
Then why have the publishers not made that choice themselves already?
This is a flawed assumption, given how dissimilar the options are in practice.
Everybody saw what happened with the Bone and got scared. Once GTA VI broke the ice and Sony blew it open wider, I don't think you'll see any of the big publishers even comment on it. Nobody wants to be first. The response to Sony's tweet was not unexpected.
MS is already struggling financially, digital only benefits them also and they've been moving in that direction for quite some time
It will surely come sadly due to scummy nature of Sony right now, but they will surely face, left and right, class suit and regulatory commission investigations.
I'm not buying for one second that the most of the publishers weren't in on this. We found out they were in on the DRM in 2013 well after using the platform to usher it in (or attempt to).
I think they don't expect to lose any revenue. The lost sales to disc only guys will be made back with no used sales. I don't think Donny Door Dash is going to not buy NCAA Football 27 because he can't save $5
I don't think they need to comment on it. If publishers thought releasing physical was losing them money, they would have stopped already.
The flaw is assuming all of the spending in that used market space will transfer over to PS store, when PS store will (presumably) not offer an option anything like it.
I think we'll see more physical releases on PS5 after GTA's release, and I think publishers will make that decision believing it to be more profitable for them than going digital only.
my bad then, I understood they stopped physical for THEIR releases, not third parties as well.
Sony don't give 2 shits about it mate!!!
I wasn't aware they were making discs for everyone. Strange they would throw all that extra money away.
I thought publishers would cover all that. Even if Sony only made an extra dollar (no doubt it would be more) on top of every 3rd party game sold it would have added up into the 10's if not 100's of millions per year.
Own what? A piece of plastic that can be scratched and serves as a license. Fucking great!! It would be great that each time you buy a game the publisher gives you a plant. So, you can own something that serves a better purpose.
Go back when you will understand someday the real problem well beyond simply stopping "Mechanical drives"
Prepare your praised digital future of nothing.
