Apparently some lawsuits have started on Sony’s potential price-fixing of all games on their platform since they’re now the only retailer. Before anyone gets excited, these are probably going nowhere, but it’s neat that something is happening. The idea seems similar to the Epic vs Apple/Google lawsuits.
Isn’t this the same line they used with Steam?
Can’t you just… buy a different console?
But what if you already bought a console? It shouldn’t be held hostage by Sony selling games at 100$ in the future. A PC without Steam is still a PC.
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This is a feature they’re rolling out, specifically with an eye towards the PS6. As far as I’m aware, that console hasn’t even been released yet.
If Sony is retailing games for $100 on their new console, that would strongly dissuade me from buying the console.
When the PS2 released, it was a cheaper blueray player than the current iteration of retail blueray players. People would buy the console just to watch movies.
The direction consoles have gone make them more like PCs with a home entertainment configuration than video game machines with some extra bells and whistles.
PS2 was a cheap DVD player, PS3 was a cheap Blu-Ray player, but your point stands.
And the OG Playstation was a cheap CD player. There’s still a cult following for the “audiophile” variant.
By the time the PS1 came out, lots of people already had CD players though. They weren’t cheap, but they weren’t crazy expensive either. DVD and Blu-Ray were in their infancy as the consoles were released, and they were the cheapest options available for playing them.
That’s a pretty big boost for console ownership.
Tbh, I think Valve needs to design an addon for the Steam Machine that’s a blu-ray player that hooks onto the side or bottom, and add support for running blu-rays from Game Mode. It wouldn’t require any extra ram or storage, so it wouldn’t fluctuate in price but add value
Even less people care about blu-ray movies than care about physical games.
Except not. There’s currently a resurgence of people buying and using Blu-Ray movies, just like vinyl records
A resurgence that’s still a rounding error in size compared to digital.
So you have nothing to add to the conversation besides negativity and contrarianism? You can be safely ignored then.
Congratulations, you just invented Sega CD.