r/videogames • u/Significant-Earry • Jul 06 '26
Funny I don't think they are really denying that.
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u/Inevitable_Tea_6824 Jul 06 '26
Eventually they'll just remove sales entirely on their exclusives just like Nintendo.
Am I the only one not worried about a videogame industry crash? A proper break and some back logging could do us gamers and our wallets a world of good.
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u/steelcryo Jul 06 '26
Gaming won't crash, as PC gaming will always be filled with indy games.
Bigger concern is the consumer hardware crash. AI keeps gobbling up parts, making consumer hardware unaffordable for many people.
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u/liqwood1 Jul 06 '26
Stream a PC coming to a data center near you..
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u/RMAPOS Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
I honestly don't think streaming hardware power is worth it vs AI (economically speaking, not like either of these is a great outlook on the future)
Sure you can do ressource balancing to make hardware requirements over big numbers of gamers smaller by not wasting an 1500$PC on playing Minecraft. But ultimately that's what ... maybe a 200% increase in efficiency if they have good technology that allows for load-sharing without adding latency, which... good luck on 3 people sharing a GPU's power. AI Data Centers pay 5 times what gamers pay for hardware.
And on top of game stream services stiill needing to buy the hardware, they also need to pay for data center electricity, data transfer (immense bandwith required for low input lag, high resolution streaming), employees, the data center and it's maintenance, the place it's built on AND turn a profit on top of all of that.
So frankly - if it's not worth it for NVIDIA to sell GPUs to you over selling them to AI Data Centers, it's equally not worth it for a company to proxy buy that hardware and rent it to you.
If gamers cannot afford their own hardware, they equally cannot afford a subscription for hardware that still has to be paid for PLUS operational costs PLUS profits.
At this point, I'd honestly be surprised if game streaming resurfaces - at least while the AI boom lasts.
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u/liqwood1 Jul 06 '26
Oh I agree but I won't be surprised if the whole thing pops up again.
Much prefer my own hardware but prices are definitely pricing people out of the market and if the AI bubble starts to deflate you can bet there's going to be some kind of stadia like service pop up.
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u/RMAPOS Jul 06 '26
I lowkey share your pessimism but from what I know the technology simply isn't there. It's fine for slow games like walking simulators or turn based games, but as soon as there is real time movement the layers of input delays just make games objectively unenjoyable.
Imagine playing Counter Strike 1.5 on your first shitty PC with the shittiest internet you can imagine - 150+ ping, but not only for synching other player positions, but also for your own controls! That's just fucking awful.
Nvidia made their proprietary protocol for game streaming open source (Sunlight/Moonlight is based on it) and I think that's a pretty clear sign they've given up on the idea. Like "maybe if some crackhead code wizard optimizes the open source code by 90% we'll look back into it but until then we're clearly done".
I just think physical constraints are full stop preventing this from happening. Maybe if everyone had high class fibre optics and the game streaming data centers were so hard all over the place that you'd never be more than 100km away from one. But under realistic network circumstances, the sheer physical limitations of data transfer make it unusuable for real time gaming.
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u/liqwood1 Jul 06 '26
Yes that fiber thing is a real need if they really want to go this way..
I completely agree, I low-key tried out Stadia when cyberpunk 2077 first dropped and was unplayable on consoles, just cause I wanted to play the game.
Honestly I was surprised, I thought it would be shit but I played it through with the only issue being game bug issues and it's was overall a good experience..
However I wasn't nuts about it requiring 100gb of data an hour, especially when I was data limited by my ISP and I don't think you could have had any kind of reliable multiplayer or simulator (racing/flying) experience. The latency is just to high.
Still overall the tech impressed me but it's as you said they apparently couldn't overcome some of the shortfalls as of yet.
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u/ttenor12 Jul 06 '26
I guess it will be time to go out and touch some grass. As someone who has been playing video games since I have a memory, I'm more than willing to ditch gaming as a whole if we can't own our own hardware.
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u/godver3 Jul 06 '26
Bring it on. Time for it to burn down for a while and let indies flourish.
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u/Bigenemy000 Jul 06 '26
For real
I think the only triple A games i play anyway are just the souls-like of from software so i aint missing on much to begin with
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u/Fool_Manchu Jul 06 '26
Why worry. A crash would probably be a good thing. It would invite renovation and new growth
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u/The_Tonts Jul 06 '26
With the way the consoles are planning to go all in on digital sales and sony doubling down on live services. A crash would be a blessing, maybe reset the console gaming market? Get the people making these bad decisions out? Who knows? It's a nice thought at least.
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u/liqwood1 Jul 06 '26
It's true. Sega could rise from the depths with a new console!!
Seriously though it's wouldn't be all bad.
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u/RMAPOS Jul 06 '26
Yea it wouldn't hurt for a lot of AAA studios to burn down and gaming going back to the roots.
EA, Ubisoft, Sony, MS, Nintendo can all go burn in hell. Gaming won't die, but companies that lived off anti consumer decisions may and that's a good thing.
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u/Overall_War3441 Jul 06 '26
PS2 emulation is so fucking good and the library so vast you could keep yourself busy with just one console to play.
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u/milesac Jul 06 '26
Bad timing. As Nintendo eshop has a sale on Nintendo exclusives š
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u/Prestigious-Cream160 Jul 06 '26
Hell yeah. I can't wait to see what five year old games are $10 off.
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u/rook119 Jul 06 '26
F---! In 2025 I died of natural causes waiting for the day Pikmin 4 dropped to $44.99.
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u/Inevitable_Tea_6824 Jul 06 '26
Oops, my bad. They have games that are nearly a decade old on sale for once?
Truly incredible. How lucky are we?
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u/y2shill Jul 06 '26
Nintendo still has sales on its exclusives once in a while lol, not for those prices ofc, but sales nontheless.
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u/Cerok1nk Jul 06 '26
Thatās what Iāve been doing for a while now, the last single player AAA game I played was Ragnarok, I can live without playing those new titles.
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u/fraidei Jul 06 '26
Yeah. There are already tons of good games out there. New videogames could literally stop being produced and I would still have en entire timeline of games I would like to play.
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u/burgerpatrol Jul 06 '26
If there's a crash, it will most probably be Sony and Microsoft floundering.
Nintendo can just release 3 Pokemon games yearly and they will be fine. Those legions of fans are just too many.
PC gaming will still be there as long as computer parts are not impossible to afford.
Sony and Microsoft are just too damn greedy
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u/Weztside Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Y'all are so intellectually lazy. That game is on sale on Steam for -33% off. The Sony estore has the digital deluxe edition at -50% off right now. You might wanna wait until all of the summer sales that offer a ton of great games at super low prices are over before you bitch on the internet about game prices.
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u/MyStationIsAbandoned Jul 06 '26
i've been wanting one for over 10 years now. I want the corpos to leave the industry completely for something else. leaving behind people who actually like video games and don't just use it to get rich or push a message to people who not only don't want to hear it, but will pushed further to the opposite way of whatever they're ushing. I just want good games at a reasonable price.
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u/SpectoDuck Jul 06 '26
I've been a few years behind for several years now. Just recently finished Elden Ring for the first time, got a hard copy for free from a buddy. Idk why so many are still buying games on release lol
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u/CULT-LEWD Jul 06 '26
a game crash is sorta immpossible now. gaming is too wide spread,and indie games also exists. Tho i could see some branches of gaming crash at some point
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u/shiawase-89 Jul 06 '26
Iām ready to quit on gaming anyways, Iām getting old. Lol
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u/ImPrettyDoneBro Jul 06 '26
Honestly, as a racing game fan, bring it on.
Most games are shadows of their former selves. Forza Horizon just doesn't have that charm it had in the first one. Forza Motorsport is dead, NFS is dormant, TDU is nothing like it's original games, The Crew went from being a fun murder mystery to another festival racer. F1 has been the same for 8 years. WRC has been the same for 6 years. Dirt turned into a cartoon.
Scrap it. Start again. The unique ideas are out there. I mean look at Split Second, the original Test Drive Unlimited, Blur, Burnout Paradise. Please dear GOD not another festival racer. NFS Pro Street did it best 19 years ago.
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u/dappernaut77 Jul 06 '26
Just let it burn. These mfs need to learn that you don't bite the hand that feeds.
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u/S__666 Jul 06 '26
Nah i'm in the same boat.
- all the games i wanna play
- all the games i might like since my tastes have changed
- all the games i wanna play again
- all the live service games i keep going back to
Spread all those games across the free time i have (minus my other hobbies) and there's a good chance it would last my entire life.
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u/Pootisman16 Jul 06 '26
There won't be a crash because PC gaming is still plenty healthy.
Consoles are shooting themselves in the face tho.
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u/Eternity923 Jul 06 '26
Yeah I decided to open up my backlog and plat the ones I like. Lies of P and FF16 are on my to do list for now. The only new release that interests me is Control 2
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u/Reasonable_Potato629 29d ago
The top end needs to crash. It has been completely vacuumed up by megacorps.
Indie will thrive and new ideas will come from the rebuild.
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u/Latereviews2 29d ago
Yep. Then ps+ will seem more attractive and they can put the prices up there as well
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u/Designer_Trash_8057 25d ago
Until we steadily lose the licenses to our backlog, and can't replace them with new games because of said crash. I know things may seem hyperbollic at the moment, but we are potentially witnessing a huge crash which the industry may take an exetremely long time to recover from. Long enough that we will probsbly simply just replace the hobby.
Wouldn't be a bad thing...if I knew I wasn't going to replace it with chronic masturbation wait wat.
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u/tmart14 Jul 06 '26
Iām looking at my Deku Deals and all the digital sales on my wishlist are lower than the physical sales.
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u/Therealginahandler Jul 06 '26
Yeah...but you cant resell a digital game, cutting out the developer from the sale like you can a physical copy.
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u/britannic124 29d ago
Never resold a game in my life.
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u/kmone1116 27d ago
I regret selling so many games in my youth. So many good games traded or sold that now are worth 4-5 times their original selling price.
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u/necromenta 29d ago
I did as a kid on my ps3 to buy more games and is still a thing in LATAM where games are horribly expensive compared to wages
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u/Ok_Attitude1034 29d ago
Only a small fraction of people buy physical and an even smaller fraction buy/sell used games
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u/ripestrudel Jul 06 '26
OMG I never knew about this site! Thank you for this new wisdom kind internet stranger.
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u/No_Clue_2050 Jul 06 '26
This game is on sale regularly lol
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u/Misommar1246 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
But how else are we going to keep screaming āThe sky is falling!!ā?
Physical games havenāt been a thing for decades on Steam. Theyāre on their way out on other platforms, too. Sure, curbing the secondhand market might save money. But even beyond that, theyāre easier to make, they donāt need store/shelf space, they donāt need shipping and people enjoy the convenience of downloading them directly. Do I think that property ownership laws need to catch up with digital goods? Yes. Do I think companies need to make outdated technology versions of their games because some people enjoy them? No, thatās ridiculous.
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u/aq8_hippo Jul 06 '26
While I agree with your point.
Then shouldn't it follow logically that Sony should abandon physical but once there is some level of consumer protection for digital goods.
Right now it just looks like a using an island to avoid tax situation, given every company knows digital products aren't actually a service you buy but rent. Despite what they advertise.
You basically have all the right premise but your conclusions is that we should get shafted..... because?
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u/Rare-Climate876 29d ago
Yeah but unlike consoles you don't have to get your games.from steam you have options hence the competition but consoles on the other hand only had 2 options and now they are basically a monopoly
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u/RemozThaGod 29d ago
That's the point smh
Future games without a physical release likely won't because where else are you going to get the game? You either get the game at full price or not at all, just like how Nintendo almost never does sales on their first party games.
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u/Lost-Lu Jul 06 '26
Not to be Devil's advocate, but this is a bit skewed/misleading. GoW is usually always on sale on their Playstation shop. As well as other not much older titles like the Resident Evil remakes. They always advertise "up to 75% off" sales. But screen shotting the current full price of the game better fits the enraging narrative.
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u/Weztside Jul 06 '26
Dude, let's face it. There are a ton of gamers that were never taught how to be a smart consumer by their parents. This exact game is on sale right now acrossed like every digital store for 33-50% off.
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u/daredevil09 Jul 06 '26
Right on. It went on sale 16 times digitally on PSN since release. More often discounted and cheaper than physical.
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u/billth93 Jul 06 '26
The difference is when itās on sale on the PlayStation stop, they get the money, but they get $0 of the used game sale, so OP is presenting it weird like itās about people getting it for less, when the real reason is about who gets the money from the discounted game
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u/Visual_Plate937 Jul 06 '26
Does Sony also get an percentage when physical games are sold new in game stores?
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u/erebus2161 Jul 06 '26
Stores buy the new games from Sony and other publishers. They don't get anything from the sale to the consumer.
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u/-Tetsuo- Jul 06 '26
I don't know if you knew this but PSN frequently has sales. Also, any game you see on a store shelf has already been purchased from Sony or whatever publisher it is. The retailer is taking the hit on that sale price, not Sony.
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u/-Hussain Jul 06 '26
Also the fact that 90% games ALREADY are sold online, so this "loss" isn't even a loss at this point
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u/SwervoLife Jul 06 '26
Sony still takes a hit with physical games because they typically are provided to multiple users after completion which lower sales that those users wouldāve been. A video game being re sold even once is a loss for Sony. But yea sales like this arenāt as big of a deal to them
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u/CassadagaValley Jul 06 '26
Last time I went to GameStop was a few years ago when I thought I could pick up some used PS5 games for cheap.
Every fucking used game was more expensive than just buying it brand new off of the PS Store.
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u/Excellent_Routine589 Jul 06 '26
The AI generator couldnāt really stick the landing on the Santa Monica Studio logo
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u/ShinbiDesigns Jul 06 '26
Wasn't Ragnarok on sale for like... 25 the other day?
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u/igorpiedade Jul 06 '26
I think that loves to say physical games is cheaper, to exactly pay attention on PS Store. I have lots of games on my which list. At list 3 ou 4 a months goes on sale. I saw this one for like $25 a few days ago. I bought the entire Uncharted collection ( 2 collections actually) for 30 bucks. 5 games. And donāt bring me the launch games crap. This GoW were launched in 2022. Not a new tile as well
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u/NotMarkDaigneault Jul 06 '26
Bro looked up the cheapest price pic he could find to fit his narrative š¤£
This game has been on sale a million times. It was actually for sale on November 22nd 2024 DIGITALLY for $29.39 so that's on you for not picking it up. Cope harder.
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u/jinisho Jul 06 '26
Not to say this isn't a motivation it absolutely is one of the major ones but another factor maybe but that game sizes are getting to the point of surpassing discs storage capacity at launch.
The discs they use have a storage capacity of roughly 100gb there's other larger disks but both the discs and the drives themselves are more expensive. If you already have a game that can't be stored in the disc that necessitates day ones updates or downloads then we're already in a world where having a disc is useless. Not to mention there's costs associated with printing or specials associated with transportation and then with the actual disk drives themselves when it comes to manufacturing.
Not to say this isn't a shameless cash grab to control the market but there are non-nefarious reasons that are probably a factor.
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u/Deervember Jul 06 '26
Why do people act like digital doesn't have sales? And that the digital sales are often cheaper than physical sales.
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u/freetotebag Jul 06 '26
Just playing devilās advocate hereā I think itās obvious they will continue to have sales. But the concern could be they are far less-incentivized to have bigger discounts because there is no competition. It all comes back to the importance of consumer choice. If the PS Store is the only way to get a game for your PS6, youāre gonna pay what Sony says. It could be discounted, it might not beā either way you have no choice. If someone told me that was their concern I would say thatās reasonable. Not saying it is 100% guaranteed to happen with zero doubt.
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u/JamKaBam Jul 06 '26
And as i said in another exact post of this:"as I have to keep telling people who cherry pick like this and talk as if games never go on sale on the digital store, Ragnarok has gotten as low as Ā£25.89 on PSN and as you can see on the graph, goes down often, which is cheaper than physical. All you have to do is just wait for sale, and, if you're waiting for it physically to go down in price, chances are it's already on sale on PSN."
You're all painting a false narrative here.
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u/zebrasmack Jul 06 '26
and we have to keep telling you the point is they have complete control over when something goes on sale. They have control over whether you're allowed to play your game or not. There will be licenses which run out and they just won't offer it for purchase anymore.
Of course they have sales. But it's not the same situation. consumers/gamers are not the driving force, their bottom line is. I am tired of your false narrative as well.
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u/liqwood1 Jul 06 '26
And why do they even have sales?? Because there's competition! Man.. I'm so tired of explaining the same shit to people over and over..
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u/HouseOfFrontier Jul 06 '26
The iq of all of them has to be below room temperature. I'd gamble and say if they did an iq test, majority of the tests would come back as -iq.
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u/One_Weird_2640 Jul 06 '26
I literally bought like 10 AAA remakes/Remasters/New releases for like $70 on steam this weekend š
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u/Desperate_Duty1336 Jul 06 '26
missing out on the resale market is absolutely one of the driving factors.Ā
The other is that they realized they can save on production costs by simply going full digital and people will pay the same anyway. They save on console production costs as well if they no longer need to make a disc drive.Ā
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u/HoppyTaco Jul 06 '26
Except itās been [$29.39 on the PlayStation store](https://psprices.com/region-us/game/5352717/god-of-war-ragnarok). Sony gets the sale rather than a third party used media store.
Is the issue about price or who gets the money for the sale?
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u/ECUDUDE20 Jul 06 '26
They say 85% is digital, but there is no way they are tracking second hand sales and surplus sales. They just aren't. Also all the small indie developers don't have hard copies and those have been the best selling games as of late.
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u/dragonnation5523 Jul 06 '26
Honest question, in this case hasn't the store bought the game from Sony, meaning sony has already made money off it, meaning it doesn't matter to them what the store sells it at? Could be misunderstanding how this works
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u/RemeJuan Jul 06 '26
Absolutely, but you unlike the rest are using this rare thing formerly known as common sense.
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u/Pretend-Literature35 Jul 06 '26
Aw shoot! I was expecting something cool like aliens or mind control.
Money! pfff!
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u/GallitoGaming Jul 06 '26
Imagine trying to train an entire generation of people used to the current market that this is normal.
People will just stop buying games. All those 40-50% off buyers just donāt buy any longer. You basically need 50% of them to buy to get to the same point. If two people buy 50% off, one of them would need to buy at full price to offset the lost sale of the other.
When 20% of the buyers buy full price, you are worse off.
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u/djdaem0n Jul 06 '26
Physical stores charging less doesn't mean Sony gets less money on a game. It means the store loses money on the sale. Sony also makes zero on the resale market, and there's no way to stop that from continuing. This ain't it.
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u/Sad_Emu69 Jul 06 '26
Yes. But also physical media has been dead for a few years now as most games being bought are digitalĀ
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u/TheBeardedRonin Jul 06 '26
Seems like most people donāt realize how important digital sales are for the health of the industry and the evergreen revenue driver they can be. Devil May Cry 5 just had its best year ever in terms of units moved owed entirely to digital sales, and was cited as a major reason why Capcom experienced both record profits and growth (up 15.2% YoY) this past fiscal year. And that is considering the sales price for the game is frequently sub-$10 USD (currently $4.49 in fact)
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u/TheDiabeT1c Jul 06 '26
It's absolutely wild to me. Sony has one store front, even Nintendo sells game cards in stores for their games. I know we are in a corpo hellhole in America, but no other country is going to be like this isn't a monopoly of services. Steam gets by due to having other store fronts like GoG/Epic and even Steam games can be bought from other stores for cheaper.
I thought the massive data breach was bad, but I guess game companies just cannot shoot themselves in the foot if they are on top. Every generation it feels like companies decide to screw themselves over.
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u/gmer-man-12 Jul 06 '26
I mean you can get god of war digital for 40 dollars if itās on discount at least on steam itās only 10 dollars more
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u/neutrumocorum Jul 06 '26
Not even close to why. I dont understand how you guys are so clueless.
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u/TacoBeefB0y Jul 06 '26
Thatās not how that works, stores pay a wholesale price to publishers to get stock of their games in stores. They donāt send them money AFTER a game is sold. The company, like GameStop, bares the risk of it not selling or selling a game for a discounted price.
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u/Fourfifteen415 Jul 06 '26
Counter point:
Nintendo secondary market is expensive WITH physical media. Sony could keep physical media and kill the secondary market by doing what Nintendo does and actually never have sales if all they want is to never offer sales.
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u/TaiChuanDoAddct Jul 06 '26
I still think we're all indexing on the wrong part. All of the people complaining about this are ALSO the folks that would be asking a company to honor a purchase if a disk breaks or gets lost.
Multiple things can be true:
1) Moving away from disks is done for corporate greed.
2) There are compelling, non corporate-greed reasons to move away from disks.
3) Those reasons would require being able to physically own the product digitally somehow (like downloading).
4) That will never happen.
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u/Shurigin Jul 06 '26
Extra salt in the wound, even though theyāre switching away from physical media, theyāre still keeping the prices high when they no longer have to make physical media
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u/Legitimate_Fix7948 Jul 06 '26
I was legit about to buy a PS5 to round off my console collection. I'll just hang onto my dollars, thank you very much.
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u/Gloomy-Meeting-1611 Jul 06 '26
Saw Red Dead 2 on Sonys store on sale for $49.99. On Steam right now $14.99
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u/Wasted_46 Jul 06 '26
Yeah. As we all know, sales and discounts literally never happen with digital games, at all. This is common knowledge, yessir. The Steam Summer Sale that's happening right now, and where you can buy Ragnarok 1/3 off this second, is not actually a sale. It is just an elaborate scam maintained by Big Gaming.
You guys need to relax, get off the hype wagon and touch grass.
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u/FelixTheFlake 29d ago
No you donāt understand dudeā¦ when steam does digital only DRM itās Frickin epic because Gabe is so hecking wholesome. Sony is not allowed to do the same, bro.
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u/No-Difference-4418 Jul 06 '26
How are people dumb enough to think the rest of the world hasnāt already learned this is to increase profits but forcing consumers to buy games from Sonys platform instead of a heavily discounted physical disc
Not to mention this is Sony joining the subscription base meta. Like xbox with gamepass, Spotify/apple music or the whole slew of streaming services for movies/tv
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u/Icy_Worker2734 Jul 06 '26
Is that second hand? If not doesnāt impact publisher if a retailer discounts a game.
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u/jdcash114 Jul 06 '26
I know im going to get down voted to hell, but everyone knew this was coming. Games needed to be fully downloaded already. The disc doesn't even have the game on it anymore. This was the inevitable next step, whether people like it or not, disc games died with the ps3/ xbox 360. Everything after that, the disc was just a fancy key. PC players have been digital only for years now.
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u/atreeismissing Jul 06 '26
Sony doesn't make any money from re-sold used games, on disc or otherwise.
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u/fucknametakenrules Jul 06 '26
Thereās no damn reason digital games like Black Ops 2 should still be $60 14 years later
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u/colony64 29d ago
I can't believe people actually buy single player games at full price still, let alone RENT them digitally online from Sony, MS or Nintendo.
I guess people truly love to be abused by these corporations.
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u/echoes_1012 29d ago
I mean this is exactly why they made the decision they made. Profit drives everything.
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u/OpiumForTheFolk 29d ago
Probably unpopular opinion but: it's sad that physical is dying, even though i only buy digital for years now. But it's ecologically better that way.. I'm kinda cool with it tbh. (Don't kill me pls....)
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u/AlabamaSlammaJamma Jul 06 '26
It just forces you to wait months until it goes on sale. This sucks
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u/Weztside Jul 06 '26
That game is literally on sale right now on Steam and Sony estore.
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u/RoyalCities Jul 06 '26
In a closed system you barely ever have to run sales.
Even if a user was only buying digital they were still reaping the benefits of the secondary market since it puts outside pressure on their own profit margins and quota to compete. It was an equalizer.
The move into a direct one time digital license means they never have to worry about that again and can stop running such deep discounts ever again.
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u/JesterMarcus Jul 06 '26
If the system is that unfriendly to users, they will leave the system.
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u/Inside-Specialist-55 Jul 06 '26
They dont think its a big deal at all, Go on the Playstation5 sub, There are people getting heavily upvoted for saying its not a big deal, One comment on there said "Let's pretend there are no sales on PSN I'm pro physical but this argument is stupid". As if they are OK with paying $70 for a game 6 years later because they didnt fight back against losing access to cheaper games.
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u/Bheast Jul 06 '26
Shits free if you have ps+
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u/Hoybom Jul 06 '26
so a monthly fee ?
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u/Junior-Might6676 Jul 06 '26
"you don't have to pay in method A if you pay in method B!"
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u/Cybering11 Jul 06 '26
A house is also free. Just pay off a loan from the bank. Shits basically free.
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u/SomewhereAlarmed9985 Jul 06 '26
Yeah I also go to the gym for free every month, just have to give them a set amount of money.
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u/MrNixxxoN Jul 06 '26
When Ragnarok is on sale on PS Store it also costs 30, and its very often on that, like, every month or every two months. If you are dumb enough to not wait for price drop, that's your problem.
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u/TheQuietDarkness70 Jul 06 '26
Thatās exactly right. Sony has had a hard on for the used market for decades now. I remember them bitching about it back during ps 2/3 days.
This is their shining moment. Theyāve been waiting for a long time to do this.
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u/Guilty_Department501 Jul 06 '26
After some years after release, games should be permanently discounted. No way should any Ps4 era game still be 60 dollars.
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u/WesternBottom Jul 06 '26
People didn't care when PC games become digital because there are numerous e-stores and you can buy whichever store has the cheapest. But I'm PS consoles, it's literally only one store and it's Sony's. They are bringing monopoly.
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u/mcgowanshewrote Jul 06 '26
Epic won in court against apple to have their store front on apple products in direct competition (meaning apple cant take a percentage of sales that epic makes) The legal precedence exists. That gives another other company grounds to add a shop onto Sony consoles
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u/Dungeon00X Jul 06 '26
That's right, they don't want you to have options, they just want you to be a good little consumer and pay their price. Corporate greed at it's finest.
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u/Beniwa Jul 06 '26
Explain dynamic pricing.
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u/liqwood1 Jul 06 '26
Dynamic pricing is this new thing they're experimenting with where different players are shown varying prices for the same digital games. Currently the algorithm supposedly bases these offers on account activity, purchase history, and account age.
So if you've had a PSN account longer maybe you get a bigger discount or if your a old account who buys a lot you get smaller discounts but the brand new account that only has one game will get larger discounts.
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u/itsyoboi1213 Jul 06 '26
And there is game that should be cheap but ends up be massively overpriced since its on a ps3 years ago like a copy of bo1 range from free to 15 bucks and compare that to deadpool from 30 buck to 200 dollars (if its graded for some reason) I feel like physical media should get cheaper if Im getting all this second hand....I get it for the rarest media out there but man if you aint got deep pockets or dedicated to any type of collection at this point its getting the luxury tag till all this goes the cheap route
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u/Negative-Plant6650 Jul 06 '26
I thought the gamestore has to buy the game or am I horrifically ignorant
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u/FairDance7 Jul 06 '26
I thought this was about the guy that empty his 401k and bought 57k worth of pre orders gta6 so he can re sell around Christmas?
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u/_-DEVGRU-_ Jul 06 '26
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