PlayStation Bad
In just the past two months, Sony has:
Suggested the PS6 *may* cost more than $1000 at launch
Announced the end of all physical PS game releases
While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever
Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types
Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind
Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.
PlayStation does not deserve your patronage any longer. The PS6 must fail. Leave them behind.
ETA: Regarding that first bullet? A Sony spokesperson was asked about reports indicating increasing cost means that the PS6 will logically cost $1000 or more. He simply shrugged it off by saying that Sony can't be expected to eat the rising cost of components. So that wasn't strictly a confirmation, in reality. It was more of a "yeah, that'd be fine if that's the case."
That last point is truly incredible when you consider that going completely digital will mean Sony gets even more revenue from every game sold than ever before. So they will ensure that we can only really buy games from them, while also refusing to eat any rising cost of manufacture? Fuck them
I don't even like Xbox, I've always found the controllers a little uncomfortable, but I won't buy a ps6
I mean listen I didn't buy a PS5 but that was because I umm haven't stopped replaying rdr2 for *checks notes* the best part of 8 years
I used to be serious gamer, okay, I just got old
Damn. I didn't hear about the game stores being shut down.
I'm guessing the PS4 and PS5 ones
it's the PS3 and vita storefronts that are being shut down. they tried shutting them down a few years ago but didn't go through with it after the backlash
PS5 and PS4 storefronts are still up and running, but they'll probably try to close them in the future as well. in an all-digital future, it's likely that you'll be forced to buy ports of games you already own, if they even get ports for the next gen



























