A former chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment USA—Shawn Layden—has shared his views regarding current and future PlayStation product landscapes. In an interview conducted by podcaster Reece Reilly (of KIWI TALKZ), the American businessman was asked about Microsoft's recent-ish release of all-d...
  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    30 minutes ago

    The PS5 doesn’t even have games and we are moving on to the 6? I guess that’s some innovation.

  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    47 minutes ago

    Well if there is no physical market they can point to that facilitates reselling your license(carrier?), they will need to support that digitally. So I believe it too!

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    According to Circana, the physical market has halved in the past three years, and potential US tariffs on Mexico aren’t going to help the physical game market. The longer it takes Sony to release a PS6, the less likely it is that it will have a disc drive.

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    If they want to keep me on their platform they’ll probably have to, otherwise it’s gonna be a Linux PC for me with all the hassle PC gaming means in my eyes.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      8 hours ago

      Don’t forget the part where those physical games mean nothing. Requiring day 1 patches. Meaning, the day those sony servers die, the day after if you’ve never played that game before? The disc does nothing. It just points to a download, on server, which in this scenario is offline.

      Meanwhile, you can still play a ps2 game, on ps2 hardware, and always will be able to. Hell sony could cease to exist, and you can still play GTA Vice City on PS2 50 years from now.

      I know PS3s online services have gone offline, but I wonder if this trend of “here’s a disc, it requires a download” started on the ps3, or the ps4.

      I wonder if I could still buy a disc, and play the game tomorrow.

      • wisely@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        This is an important topic for game preservation. Makes me wonder if there is a life expectancy for the parts in a PS2?

        • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          6 hours ago

          Of course there is, capacitors go bad, other parts stop working.

          The only fully guaranteed method of preservation is via emulation.

      • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        What? They don’t “require” a day-one patch to play. Disconnect a PS5 from the internet, pop a new game in the drive and it will play just fine without any patches, albeit with whatever bugs the game shipped with (which is a whole different story)

        • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
          121·
          8 hours ago

          I think that’s their point, the quality of games has gone down the drain where the golden disc contains basically an alpha version of the game.

          • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.caEnglish
            5·
            7 hours ago

            They pretty clearly say the “disc does nothing” which is a different, fallacious claim.