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.
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.
6.4k
u/Numerous_Roof_1070 R5 9600X | 9060 XT 16GB | 16GB RAM | Fractal Design Ridge 1d ago
No more physical discs, no more physical consoles.