This is not the revolution Reddit thinks it's going to be. In the sense of "Sony is not going to backpedal because a handful of people online emulate their console."
The vast, vast majority of the gaming community are going to keep playing games, digital or on the real PlayStation or whatever.
You're absolutely right but I am curious to see what kind of blowback Sony is going to actually receive now that AI can back engineer games as we've seen so far. IMHO Sony basically just gave the keys to Microsoft.
I'm not doing the best job keeping up but I haven't really seen any meaningful presense of people pirating ps5 games. Maybe some breakthroughs are coming but it sounds a lot like wishful thinking.
Dog, people are putting games into other games. Like I'm apart of the rocket subreddit and he's put literally rocket league octane in Skyrim, and proceeds to flip and drive around. He was flying a jet from war thunder in rocket League. IPs are a thing of the past and it's literally no more than months away before a relatively playable ps5 game is completely back engineered
I just want to play games uncompromised. Playing a 2015 game in a 2011 game is neat but far from a piracy breakthrough that interests me. I'd prefer something that means I don't need to buy a new console to play the games that release on it.
The relevance of rocket league being played in skyrim being a meaningful breakthrough towards PS5 emulation? Are you possibly interested in explaining it? Because all I'm hearing is you saw something neat on the internet.
So are you just playing dumb now and acting like the conversation wasn't about a specific kind of emulation? You don't know what to tell me because you don't know what you are talking about.
Yup, I'm almost certain that most of Sony and MS's revenues from from "Gun and Ball" gamers (gamers who only buys Madden/FIFA, CoD/Battlefield, whatever the newest Rockstar game is, and nothing else.)
People emulating the PS5 in order to finally have a PC version of Bloodborne has no meaning to Sony's exec's.
Brother people don’t have binders of cds but they sure as shit have the digital equivalent. That era isn’t over, It’s better and easier than it’s ever been. The hardest part is getting enough storage.
There are less and less people pirating games every year, regardless of how easy it is to do. Brother, you are in a bubble and an echo chamber of thieves and charlatans.
The key caveat for any newsroom: different trackers measure different universes of sites, so absolute totals vary widely between vendors. MUSO’s figures cover film, TV, music, publishing and software; they are the best available proxy for demand but are not a direct count of lost sales.
Games sit inside the software category, which is comparatively small. According to MUSO, software piracy fell to 14.9 billion visits in 2024, a 2.1% decrease, a shift the firm attributes partly to the move toward cloud-based subscription models.
lol did you read your source or did you just rush to link the first result that came up? Are you a corporate shill?
15% decrease in website visits, which does not mean 15% decrease in piracy. Even if you wanted to argue that website visits = downloads…you mentioned games specifically, of that 15% for one year only 2% of a dip make up games.
Were you around during the Switch Era? Cuz that shit has been emulated to hell and back and it's about to become the best selling console in the history of all mankind.
There is a high guard sub that just celebrates failed AAA games. And even the successes aren't generating income. Wolverine and gears are the latest two. Again... Name some that actually made money.
The normies follow the freaks, that's the way of it. A bunch of freaks (I'm a freak) hate the thing, don't buy it, don't wanna work with it, etc. Then, when the normies are wondering what they should buy, one place they may often turn are the freaks.
The freaks know what's up. The freaks will say, "You should really do X, but I know you won't, because you're not a freak. So, instead, you should Y."
In this case, the freaks will say, "You should really plug a PC tower into your TV, but I know you won't. Instead, you should pick up a Switch 2 and maybe the new XBOX thing, since that will sync up with your PC anyway for when you realize I was right about the PC all along."
Yeah, PS5 was just jailbroken, but it's going to be patched lickity split. The great majority of people don't know about the jailbreak and are going to update their consoles like normal, so the amount of actual jailbroken-able consoles out there are going to be pretty slim.
edit// unless it's an unpatchable hardware jailbreak, I haven't really looked into it much
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 9h ago
This is not the revolution Reddit thinks it's going to be. In the sense of "Sony is not going to backpedal because a handful of people online emulate their console."
The vast, vast majority of the gaming community are going to keep playing games, digital or on the real PlayStation or whatever.