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One of Sony’s best-ever PlayStation ads is a 21-second video titled, “Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video.” It’s a “step-by-step” guide about how to lend your PS4 games to your friends. It has one step: one person hands another person a game box…
…But more than a decade later, it’s not hard to imagine a future where Sony’s own ad doesn’t apply anymore
What a gut punch!
They made that ad and released it the same day after Xbox announced their disc games would be one-time use activation keys.
If I care enough about a game to pay $70 for it, I want to own it. And I want to be able to let a friend borrow it. And I want to be able to sell it.
I know people like their convenience. But I don’t really understand it either unless it’s a game you might want to play in the spur of the moment (Call of Duty or something like that). If I’m playing a longish story-heavy, I’m just leaving that disc in my console for awhile.
Owning a console and having a library card gives you so many free gaming options.
Why would you want that to go away?
I barely buy any physical media anymore. I didn’t intend to be this way but I guess it’s a combination of things now with cost of living crisis, new games cost more than before, digital sales are mush better and more games are given away for free with various services. Out of everything we own it is Switch games that have the most physical versions because digital prices of Nintendo games suck.
I haven’t touched physical game media in over a decade
Been gone for at least 15 years for me. Like do people still have DVD/CD ROM drives in their machines. It’s been ages since I’ve even considered physical games since I find it a hassle over my steam library. Sure they could take it away at some point in the future but by that mentality Russia could EMP us…
A large majority of Physical games have secretly been made as one-time activation keys, and aren’t really a physical game in any meaningful sense since most of the game isn’t on the disc. Physical games at this point are more of a semantic argument to distract people from the real question, when will online DRM and activation completely take over?
never.
