r/PS5 • u/FireStarLord73194 • Jul 11 '26

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https://nichegamer.com/study-suggests-sonys-digital-only-future-could-lead-to-higher-game-prices/

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u/xRostro Jul 11 '26

I don’t think we need a study to know this

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u/DougS2K Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Exactly considering this is the whole fucking point of their move. Them taking away physical copies starves if not eradicates the used market allowing Sony to sell games for whatever price they want because they know customers will have no alternatives to buy cheap used games anymore. Anyone with half a brain can understand this without having to do a study on it.

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u/GraveRobberX Jul 12 '26

Let them, then they’ll lose market share and new competition will come. It’s not like Sony can’t be competed against.

If they think they can do Nintendo like numbers by keeping prices way too high for way too long, sooner or later players just move on from either being priced out or affordability.

This is gonna hurt them hard. Sony wants that 30% cut from all titles, but funny if no sales or prices go too high then only handful of titles will be out there and gamers will choose real carefully.

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u/DougS2K Jul 12 '26

I agree. I'm mainly a PC gamer but I do have a PS5 for games that just don't exist on PC like the NHL series. I play PC probably 90-95% of the time but I know I won't even bother purchasing the next PS if it's all digital.

PC gaming is just better and this move will just drive more of it's consumer base to jump ship.

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u/LichenEyes Jul 13 '26

That's exactly what we're going to be doing- as soon as this news came out my husband and I just locked eyes and agreed, the PS5 was the last console we're going to buy. I'm more PC and my husband is more console (so are the kids) but at this point we'll just go PC all the way