• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    I can get a fairly good gaming PC for a thousand dollars why would I pay $900 for a games console that’s basically worse in every way?

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    11 hours ago

    “Computers that are just for games, that you can’t do anything else on… And we say what games, and also for lots of them you have to keep paying us to play them… And you can’t have any physical ownership of them anymore”.

  • switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Maybe most people who would want to buy said systems can’t afford 1600 dollars for one when they can’t even afford groceries and gas? Huh, just maybe.

    (Used pricing from GameStop)

  • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
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    11 hours ago

    I hardly ever use my Sony Netflix box anymore.

    Mostly because I stopped buying from them digitally because they won’t refund a game if you’ve downloaded a single solitary bit of data, and now they won’t sell physical copies so…

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    10 hours ago

    I wonder how gta will affect those numbers, and how those numbers will affect the pc release.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      5 hours ago

      I doubt it will have a huge impact. It’s not as if we’re at the beginning of the console generation most people will already have a PlayStation.

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    16 hours ago

    I looked at buying a ps5 for the first time since it came out a couple weeks ago because I really wanted to play LOTR War in the North again.

    Its twice as expensive as it was when it came out.

    I just went home and grabbed my old ps2.

    Its absolutely insane that this console is so expensive right now.

    It is also the last PS I would get because I want physical discs.

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      14 hours ago

      The ps5 that comes with a disc drive is useless, as the “physical” copies of games are just empty cases with redemption codes inside.

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          11 hours ago

          Nah, that guy is a bit off. I’ve bought several brand new, 2026 titles this year and they all have discs in the box.

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            14 hours ago

            I strongly oppose this view: with my disc drive PS5 I am able to play games I bought second hand and games I borrowed from my local library

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                11 hours ago

                I have literally bought the last few brand new, 2026 PS5 games on disc. I’m getting Control Resonant this week on disc.

                If you mean GTAVI, then yeah that’s bonkers. But you can get most games with a physical disc currently.