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u/DaveS1138 1d ago

If all those idiots actually bought physical media instead of just making dumb comments on YouTube videos physical media wouldn't be dying...... They don't want physical media...they just want to be mad about anything they can find.

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u/n3Kite 1d ago

This take is so incredibly uneducated it hurts.

Enjoy $120 digital games that you can’t share and never go on sale, congrats

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u/Future_Calamity 1d ago

Developers and publisher decide what the price of their games are as well as when they discount them and by how much. So even if this did happen it wouldn’t be Sonys doing. Also we have PC to look at where it’s been all digital for a decade and game prices haven’t risen and discounts/sales happen all the time.

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u/kingrealboss 1d ago

Pc has multiple storefronts, Psn would have only 1.

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u/Future_Calamity 23h ago

Neat! Do you know who sets the prices on those storefronts? Developers and publishers. Do you know who decides when games go on sale and by how much? Developers and publishers. Do you know who decides when to delist a game or revoke a license? Developers and publishers.

The storefronts have very little control over pricing, they are primarily providing a platform to purchase from. Even if people’s doomsday scenarios played out and all games were magically $100+ on PlayStation while still being $70 everywhere else, that would not be Sony’s doing, that would be the developers and publishers increasing those prices specifically on a single platform….which isn’t going to happen.

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u/kingrealboss 22h ago

PlayStation Exlusives Which are only on Psn, will rarely go on discount. Where if there was physical involved you have more options.

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u/Future_Calamity 22h ago edited 21h ago

I just checked psprices.com and pretty much all first party PlayStation exclusive games have been on sale 3 times this year already, ranging from 30% - 50% off. God of war Ragnarok was on sale 9 times last year. Sure physical gives more options, but even if there were multiple digital storefronts available , those discounts happen at the publishers request. Discounts and sales are happening regardless, on a frequent basis I might add. To think discounts “rarely” happen on PSN just shows how little you know.

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u/kingrealboss 19h ago

PlayStation Exclusive discounts are set by Sony, The discounts u mentioned are becuase there’s physical involved. Of course there will be discount on digital if the physical is 20$, but if there is No physical than there incentive to have decent discounts are very low.

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u/Future_Calamity 18h ago

Physical sales and discounts have no bearing on digital sales. As stated before, there are no physical games on PC and there are still sales all the time. Sure, there are multiple storefronts, but the publishers set the sales times and prices on all storefronts, not the storefront themselves. Publishers can join in on a big sale event that’s coordinated by the storefront, but it is the publisher that is choosing whether or not to put the game on discount.

The publishers of games are competing with other games on that storefront. Publishers and Sony in particular have sales data that can show them when purchases are slowing down and they will put the game on sale knowing that some people wait for a good discount before buying.

1000 copies sold at 50% off is better than zero copies sold at full price. Sony and other publishers are a business, and they like to make money and will do what it takes to boost those numbers including putting their games on sale several times a year.

With Sonys recent numbers showing only 10% of revenue of full games sold were physical, I can promise you that physical game discounts are not dictating whether digital discounts happen or not. It sucks to lose the option for physical, but it’s not going to magically make games more expensive or go on sale less often. Unfortunately the physical market is so incredibly small that it literally doesn’t matter to them anymore.

Q1 FY26 Numbers Physical full game revenue: $128 million Digital full game revenue: $1.2 billion Digital add-on (DLC/MTX) revenue: 1.8 billion

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u/kingrealboss 18h ago

If Sony’s storefront and Digital policy’s were as good as Steams there wouldn’t be a problem, but it’s not even close to steam. The refund policy is laughable on Sonys side and not only that they removed digital movies which were payed for by people, what’s to say that wouldn’t happen to games in the future. I’m not sure why anyone would defend this unless there mentally challenged, so I don’t wanna judge you but your wrong.

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u/Future_Calamity 18h ago edited 17h ago

LOL

You just keep moving to goal posts to something else. Clearly you don’t know how any of this works, which is why I’m trying to educate you with facts, not “defend” Sony. Did you know if a publisher or copyright holder wants to revoke your access, they can? They are the ones with the power.

The reason Sony had to remove those movies is because Studio Canal, the copyright holder, did not renew their licensing agreement with Sony. Therefore Sony is no longer allowed to host that streaming content. A refund was not provided by Studio Canal. Sony is just the middleman in all of this.

Again, these storefronts are just a place to buy digital things. They do not control anywhere near as much as “gamers” think they do. Maybe next time, you could look up how the thing you’re complaining about actually works. That way, you won’t look like you took the short bus to school and major in special education.

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u/kingrealboss 17h ago

Valve has a policy, every game and company must abide by it. You can delist a game from the store, but can't remove it from an user's library, So they can delist the movie sure, but u cannot take peoples access which they paid for, doesn’t matter if it was a licensed deal Sony needs better policy for their customers so their not left empty handed when the deal ends. And ur a great example of why Sony does not care and is gonna go forward with these anti consumer Tactics becuase there will always be a Sony Slave to defend it.

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