3% of sales but 90% of the internet is complaining
And never ever has a big company lied about numbers
Nah all in all this was going to happen sooner or later. But it really sucks.
Collecting games has always been a passion of a so many of us through different classes, different consoles. different interests etc. And now we all have the 'privilige' of saying let's own something digital which in the long run will not work anymore as storefronts vanish, are repurposed or outright purged of content you paid for (see the other recent Sony debacle).
Let me drag movies into here; I still can get blurays or dvds if I really really want something to own. So movies are winning here.
This upcoming SONY gaming situation leaves us with ... nothing.
[INSERT THE YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY ABOUT GIF HERE]
I hate that concept to my core, but in the landscape of ever evolving game sizes, offering all games physical is becoming less and less possible as not every vendor/studio will opt for that route. And I totally totally get that... as a small dev cant always say well yeah I will sell 500K of this so im sure it will offset. But the big boys should be proud to offer a physical game, it's still advertisement for their game in the long run.(in stores, seeing a game at friends in their collection, being able to take a game somewhere etc)
But note that not the game studios are saying physical is dead here, one of top the 3 hardware parties is saying; We have decided to say f physical games all together. We can discuss the pro's an cons of physical games as long as you want but, read it again; a top 3 hardware vendor (SONY) is saying f physical. That part to me is insane.
That means the device will not even have a physical format, thus parties who try and provide physical games like LRG, SRG, PixnLove, etc.etc. can shove it too. But not only them. game studios can shove it, no more advertisment for your game in brick n mortar stores. (ok sure banners go download here, and kinds of crap) The only storefront for all your games is t f-in Sony Storefront. Way to kill competition, those stores, and a lot of gaming hype.
Sony with this has shown it is not for the games at all.
Sony is for Sony, Sony is for $$$$ony,
If I had my way I would love to have physical games of every 'major' game I buy. I would pay more for the privilige. I would import if possible. I would wait if needed. But outright saying f physical as Sony ... no good word can come from me for that.
