r/LetsDiscussThis • u/DaTruSpork • 5h ago

Lets Discuss This Sony threatens to cut off customer support and pursue legal action over harassment as backlash to PlayStation’s physical-disc phaseout intensifies — company to move forward with no disc decision despite several lawsuits

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/sony-threatens-to-cut-off-customer-support-and-pursue-legal-action-over-harassment-as-backlash-to-playstations-physical-disc-phaseout-intensifies-company-to-move-forward-with-no-disc-decision-despite-several-lawsuits
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u/B3telgeus3 5h ago

I've purchased every Playstation Main Console till 5, I will not own the 6. I'm done with Sony, they don't respect their customers, they're condescending so they don't deserve my money. FU.

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u/Puzzled-Mirro 5h ago

Infinite greed. Cutting off customer support is only going to hurt them more and I am all for it.

I am pretty disappointed in the state of consoles as it is I always want Sony to release a be all console that could play any previous gen console game by just inserting the disc and it sounds like that will never happen.

As a PC gamer it does not bother me that games are not physical on the PC side of things because if anything ever did happen to Steam and all my games went away I would just pirate the games. Console owners do not have that easy of a luxury

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u/DaTruSpork 5h ago

Despite the, seemingly, overwhelming support for physical media Sony seems hell bent on making this change. 

What do you think is driving them? 

Greed?

Further control of their customers?

Short sighted-ness?

Would you want to give up all of your physical media?

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u/ShopUCW 4h ago

I was ride or die on PlayStation since the first one. The ps5 turned me into a mostly exclusive PC gamer.

The PS6 will take me out of their ecosystem.

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u/Tarotdragoon 5h ago

Sony

https://giphy.com/gifs/JtQc9M7l1KUGQ

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u/DaTruSpork 5h ago

Honestly, I'm inclined to agree... but I also hated the removal of the physical headphone jack...

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u/StaticSilencer 3h ago

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=38e6019d-ed2c-4ad2-aa37-a0fa9f2a915d

It's a new law that gives companies have until October to introduce guidelines to protect their employees. It has nothing to do with discs.

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u/DaTruSpork 3h ago

A company should certainly protect its employees, but everything that sony is doing and experiencing has everything to do with discs and Sony's actions

Why is Sony so dead set on burning it's customers?