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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...
Last post by kitler53 - Today at 12:34 AMGameStop CEO on all digital ps5:
"It doesn't matter at all," Cohen said. "Software, it mattered in the past. Software today makes up less than 12% of the business, and collectables makes up over half the business. So, it's totally, totally irrelevant."
"It doesn't matter at all," Cohen said. "Software, it mattered in the past. Software today makes up less than 12% of the business, and collectables makes up over half the business. So, it's totally, totally irrelevant."
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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...
Last post by kitler53 - Today at 12:29 AMQuote from: the-Pi-guy on Yesterday at 10:12 PMSony sold 70 million discs last year.era math?
Something like 20% of their games are sold physically. And from what I understand that also includes games that are digital only. A lot of their first party games were still like 40/60.
people with real data tell us again and again discs are about 15%. several games from this year were reported at 12%.
I'll believe insiders with tracking info over era math. those guys are desperate to make it look like discs sell massive numbers and I have eyeballs. during ps4 my target/Walmart had at least 100 games in stock with popular games having dozens of discs. today they sell less that 10 games and never more than 2-3 discs each.
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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 10:12 PMQuote from: kitler53 on Yesterday at 09:59 PMI'm certain publishers are a fan of this change. Sony didn't make GTA go digital only after all.Sony sold 70 million discs last year.
sony's "crime" is being upfront and transparent to consumers. physical has been drying up for years already and the timing of 2028 is no coincidence,.. it's ps6 obviously. it would be bad business to commit to physical on ps6 and then need to support it for ~7 years when discs barely sell today.
Something like 20% of their games are sold physically. And from what I understand that also includes games that are digital only. A lot of their first party games were still like 40/60.
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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...
Last post by kitler53 - Yesterday at 09:59 PMI'm certain publishers are a fan of this change. Sony didn't make GTA go digital only after all.
sony's "crime" is being upfront and transparent to consumers. physical has been drying up for years already and the timing of 2028 is no coincidence,.. it's ps6 obviously. it would be bad business to commit to physical on ps6 and then need to support it for ~7 years when discs barely sell today.
sony's "crime" is being upfront and transparent to consumers. physical has been drying up for years already and the timing of 2028 is no coincidence,.. it's ps6 obviously. it would be bad business to commit to physical on ps6 and then need to support it for ~7 years when discs barely sell today.
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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 09:41 PMA lot of the outrage is definitely because it feels like Sony is the one driving the change as opposed to consumers.
If physical releases very quietly started drying up like PC releases did, there wouldn't be any outrage.
But this is Sony just outright closing the door to publishers and consumers.
Frankly I've been surprised that people have kept up making a fuss two weeks later. I kind of assumed it'd die off a week later.
I'm more just saying if those people really want Sony to reconsider physical media, they are going to have to keep it up, probably for months.
If physical releases very quietly started drying up like PC releases did, there wouldn't be any outrage.
But this is Sony just outright closing the door to publishers and consumers.
Quote from: kitler53 on Yesterday at 09:12 PMso unless you really think that 10% of video gamers will just stop playing video games entirely without a disc option this isn't going to harm sony. digital is the norm for a long time now. sony is not blazing a trail here,.. if anything they are late to the party.
Frankly I've been surprised that people have kept up making a fuss two weeks later. I kind of assumed it'd die off a week later.
I'm more just saying if those people really want Sony to reconsider physical media, they are going to have to keep it up, probably for months.
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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...
Last post by kitler53 - Yesterday at 09:12 PMi think ps6 is going to struggle because of component costs.
being disc-less isn't going to make them lose 10% of their customers. disc-less probably wouldn't even lose them 1% of their customers. let us review:
so unless you really think that 10% of video gamers will just stop playing video games entirely without a disc option this isn't going to harm sony. digital is the norm for a long time now. sony is not blazing a trail here,.. if anything they are late to the party.
being disc-less isn't going to make them lose 10% of their customers. disc-less probably wouldn't even lose them 1% of their customers. let us review:
- IOs - digital only for the lifetime of the platform almost 20 years ago.
- Android - digital only for the lifetime of the platform. probably
2019 years ago - Steam - digital only for the lifetime of the platform. ...which i'll say started in 2005 when they started selling 3rd party games. so 21 years ago.
- xbox - while technically they sell discs now many games have disc versions on ps5 but not on xbox. no one with a brain should think a next generation xbox will have support for discs either.
- nintendo - yes they have physical. but they've also release numbers indicating that digital is far outpacing carts and nintendo recently needed to have a change in policy where physical now costs $10 more than digital
so unless you really think that 10% of video gamers will just stop playing video games entirely without a disc option this isn't going to harm sony. digital is the norm for a long time now. sony is not blazing a trail here,.. if anything they are late to the party.
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Off-Topic Community / Re: SpaceX goes public
Last post by kitler53 - Yesterday at 08:59 PMQuote from: Legend on Yesterday at 07:33 PMThey have a starship launch today. If it blows up, you might get that 50%knowing the current market conditions it would probably cause it to rise 50%. the entire market has gone crazy.
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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...
Last post by the-pi-guy - Yesterday at 07:51 PMQuote from: kitler53 on Yesterday at 06:53 PMin related news:That's not really the metric though.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vgc-analytics-firm-says-gta-6-has-%E2%80%98the-strongest-pre-order-campaign-on-record%E2%80%99-is-on-track-to-sell-37-51-million-in-its-first-week.1579084/
they may be vocal but nothing talks so loud as money and the money says a digital only option to buy a game hasn't hurt the sales of that game.
A lot of games would be plenty successful without physical. The question is, whether it's worth losing maybe 10% of consumers, for higher margins on the rest.
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Off-Topic Community / Re: SpaceX goes public
Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 07:33 PMQuote from: kitler53 on Yesterday at 02:17 PMlol no. it need to drop by at least 50% to reach a reasonable market value.They have a starship launch today. If it blows up, you might get that 50%
exactly. crazy..
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Off-Topic Community / Re: Humanoid Robot Progress Tr...
Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 07:33 PMMy favorite moment from the entire URKL Robot Fight!
— Eren Chen (@ErenChenAI) July 16, 2026
One brutal kick sent the robot's head hanging loose. and it somehow kept fighting like nothing happened!
I completely lost it. Had to lower down the volume of my laugh 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QtbHW7UcvS