Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  anyone remember when the argument for digital goods was " We wont have to waste money on boxes, printing, media, storage, or shipping! So your goods will be cheaper than ever, and everyone will still get a more profitable cut!"

  Pepperidge farm Remembers, because Pepperidge farm called bullshit on the argument back at the very start, and said they would get rid of physical media, not lower prices, and that we would lose ownership of our purchases… and the internet poopoo’d me to hell in back calling me paranoid and stupid for it.

  and look where we are.

  and its so goddamn fucked up I don’t even get a single molecule of serotonin from being right about it.

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  • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The internet is chock full of idiots who piss all over Cassandra

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      who?

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      • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not sure if joking, but just in case:

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dunno. Steam did it well enough. I was buying cheap games for years. I could get a kick ass GOTY game for like $5 while GameStop was still selling it used on consoles for $20.

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    • Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You do realize you don’t “own” anything on Steam right? Every dollar you give them is towards a “subscription” to play the game.

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      • nek0d3r@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While companies like Nintendo continually kill off game accessibility, Steam doesn’t really take away games from anyone. Digital distribution may not be ownership, but Steam in particular hasn’t given reason to worry.

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      • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is why I buy from GOG

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      • Prok@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While true for some games that require their online services. There’s nothing keeping you from downloading a game and backing up the install files on your own media to play later… A lot of games will run without steam open if you just run the executable…

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• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That makes this even more depressing.

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  • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But where to store it all now?

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More hard drives. lol

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      • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

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• GeekFTW@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jokes on Sony, they stopped getting my money years ago.

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Damn, that’s some Qanon-level shit.

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  • SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, except it’s not a conspiracy. The death of physical media is an actual tragedy because digital media is nowhere near as free.

    It’s to the point where much of the media I love is actually not available legally and officially for physical ownership, in some cases becoming actual lost media physically, and not available for purchase or even download anymore.

    Companies absolutely want to control the consumption of media in more restrictive ways that they can control, it’s not a conspiracy, it’s the actual truth.

    DRM, always online, digital only, subscription services - they are all designed to remove you further and further from being an owner.

    Everything from video games, music, movies…all entertainment media is moving in this direction and it’s an actual tragedy.

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      becoming actual lost media physically

      Reminded me of that Cowboy Bebop episode where they so hunting for a VCR.

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    • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and the fact that they’ve already done it with the disney vault.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or… they’re stopping production because there’s very little demand. Nah, that can’t be it.

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      • SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you think the demand isn’t there, you’re out of touch. It’s certainly true that many consumers are choosing digital content, but it’s largely driven by it not having inconvenienced them so far too.

        Everyone I’m seeing who lost the 3DS and Wii U stores, or lost access to all the games in their account, or even people who purchased media they can’t download and access again is realizing how big this problem is.

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