TimothyOilpants

Thing is, both Microsoft and Sony had this exact infrastructure built ready to go for Xbox One and PS4 prior to launch.

We were going to get full digital collections with a marketplace that would allow entitlement sales AND the ability to loan entitlements to friends for set periods of time.

When Microsoft announced the plans at E3 2013, a whiny minority of “core gamers” kicked up such a fuss that Microsofts stock tanked and they backpedalled… Sony hadn’t made any announcements yet and presented the EXACT opposite of Microsoft’s plan literally 8 hours later despite the fact that their existing hardware DevKits and system software functioned exactly as Microsoft had described. Sony got to look like the “hero” while both of them then scrambled to completely reengineer their hardware and system software prior to launch…

There is an opportunity to work with these companies toward defining what consumers actually want, but as long as the response they get is this petulant luddite outrage of “physical media or death” what is their motivation?

You can’t make yourself unreasonable then expect people to reason with you.

Also, those launch discs might be playable, but you know as well as I do that it’s the absolute smallest and worst version of the game. Software IS a service now, and that’s fucking great because it means the thing you pay for once gets better better over time. You don’t get that with any other consumer product.

And you booted it up and played it straight away? No installation, no updates?

I’m not arguing against a resale/borrowing market, but that doesn’t need to have anything to do with physical media.

Bean soup?

When was the last time you got a fully up-to-date playable title on physical media?

CDDA is full of real world brands…

Bullshit. What do you play, Pitfall?

Advertising (which includes product placement) is so ubiquitous there’s essentially zero chance you’re avoiding it, you just don’t notice it…

I believe the correct name is The Republic of Samsung a Vassal State of America.

There are more people making independent video games today than at any point in history.

I just don’t understand the all-or-nothing perspective that video game social media pundits have.

Personally, I absolutely prefer indie art films generally, but my preference doesn’t mean that Michael Bay blockbusters shouldn’t exist, or that Universal Pictures should go out of business…

Not everything needs to be for everyone, and most things created aren’t created for ME.

Nothing worse then wanting to play a game you haven’t played in a while and then having to redownload it…

Not even Dermatobia hominis? Or anthropogenic climate change? Or like, genocide?

Less than 0.01% of human history has even been documented…

Just because you can’t imagine anything better than what you were raised in doesn’t mean it can’t exist…

This too shall pass.

You could have protected your account info in the first place…

That you think strips of paper, or numbers on a screen have an equivalent value to your time and labor is not Sony’s fault…

“My home builder is totally useless! I left my door unlocked and someone stole all my shit!”

You better keep your promise.

As soon as you said you have employees, your perspective and respect lost all value.

You are not a part of the future of humanity; you are an opponent of it.

BAAAA!

…non-exploiting capitalist.

Did you read that term in a fairytale? 😂

Is your business structured as a worker cooperative or are you the owner?

If you take home a single penny more than the other people in your company, you are an exploitative capitalist and a labor thief. Take your market fundamentalist virtue signaling somewhere else…

Your “gotcha” reply just killed any credibility you might have argued on this topic. You are no better than the companies you’re criticizing, you’re just less successful at it.

I don’t need to advertise my contributions to strangers on the internet, and rationalize my behavior to satisfy a guilty conscience… The people in my community know what value I add.

Do better.

It’s also pretty likely that if this new entity struggles financially they can apply for a federal bailout since they are an essential business…

Because >20,000 children have died in Gaza since 2023 as a direct result of the same exploitative capitalism, and selective outrage over video games seems ignorant, performative, and wasteful of my energy…

Because every moment spent advocating for the “rights” of 1st world consumers is an affront to millions of lives lost so you have the comfort and privilege required to care about something so fucking stupid and selfish…

The only thing I am challenging is your claim that console has ceded market share to PC.

“Market share” has a defined meaning. Revenue for console and PC have both increased, one more than the other, but neither have gained any market share.

Maybe you just used the wrong metric to illustrate your point?