For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.

  • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Exactly!

    It’s just Sony, look at Nintendo. They are trying to transition from cartridge to code for digial downloads. Steam has exploded the last 10 years and everything is digital

    It’s not a bad thing, tech is just evolving. People can make the comparison to cartridges when disk based consoles came out.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Its a bad thing for two reasons:

      1. It destroys any form of ownership people have over digital assets like games, movies, etc.
      2. No ownership destroys the second hand market. This hurts for a number of reasons:
      3. Preservation can now only be done illegally
      4. Access to gaming and other media becomes more expensive
      5. Large corporations get to decide what you can / cannot play. Removing games from storefronts and consoles is a lot easier than hunting down physical copies.

      That being said I have no issue with digital only, we just need legislation that forces some form of “ownership” beyond just a license.