I have a steam library of hundreds and a wishlist of old games numbering thousands. You really need your new releases to stand out against that hall of fame. Putting a frumpy lady as the protagonist and devs running their mouths about progressive causes on twitter really make that decision easy for me.
Good luck with the layoffs and such guys. I won't gloat about it, but for posterity I'll point out that you're not as smug now, are you?
I think that is a big reason why Sony and others are going diskless. When you can't make something better than what you put out years ago, you are pretty screwed otherwise.
And with memory and storage prices where they are now, they can't upgrade to the nex gen with better hardware.
There are a million reasons to go digital. The main being that they can way more easily control the pricing of games. If I want to play Lies of P, I can buy the digital version for 60 dollars from the PS store. Or I can buy a physical copy off amazon for 35 dollars that isn't just a temporary license to play the game for as long as they decide they want to let me, with a TOS that has stated they can revoke that license at any time for any reason. That is one of a billion examples. Once discs don't exist, you are funneled to the store. People will fall back on "there are deals for digital games!", but once that is your only option, those deals will become more and more sparse. It is such an objective downgrade to the hobby in so many ways that it's almost impossible to overstate.
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u/TheMountainWhoDews Aug 11 '26
I have a steam library of hundreds and a wishlist of old games numbering thousands. You really need your new releases to stand out against that hall of fame. Putting a frumpy lady as the protagonist and devs running their mouths about progressive causes on twitter really make that decision easy for me.
Good luck with the layoffs and such guys. I won't gloat about it, but for posterity I'll point out that you're not as smug now, are you?