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Yes, that is the primary reason people just want it but not enough people to buy the thing same happen with physical games
by tonyhart7 3mo ago
Yes, that is the primary reason
people just want it but not enough people to buy the thing
same happen with physical games
- rbanffy 3mo ago> same happen with physical games And now it’s faster to get them online than to go to the store, even if the game doesn’t have to download itself again for updates.
- rustcleaner 3mo ago... and you end up being the donkey they can pin the tail onto, when they feel like bilking you again.
- rbanffy 3mo agoCompanies like this are why strong customer protection laws need to exist, and be full of teeth.
- smcg 3mo agothe stores also have terrible physical stock. getting a game you want by blindly walking into a store is a gamble now.
- rbanffy 3mo agoRecord stores are the same - subscription services for music made them very niche.
- SirHackalot 3mo agoDoes that mean capitalism is not an efficient system to meet the needs of well-informed consumers? Why am I being lumped in with an 8 year old who asks their parents to buy them an online game? There should be a market for physical media and devices with physical buttons if people exist who want them. These companies won’t work on anything that doesn’t bring them a gazillion dollars, so billion/million dollar ventures never get off the ground.
- tonyhart7 3mo agocapitalism is the most efficient system ever the statistic literally says it all, any person that think otherwise its delusional
- psd1 3mo agoIs it, though? Rule of thumb: when a fanboy asserts that any person holding an alternative view is defective, you should immediately abandon the fanboy's position and adopt the alternative view. It's heuristically more likely to be correct, and it gets you out of an odious fan club. Case in point: China proceeded through stages of development more efficiently than any western nation. Case in point: South Korea incubated its industry in a command economy.
- tonyhart7 3mo agocase in point: bringing 2 best example of why capitalism is the best system
- psd1 3mo agoCare to explain?
- SirHackalot 3mo agoThrow the USSR in there as well. Central planning allowed them to leap from an agrarian society to launching Sputnik and putting the first human in space, which spooked us into kickstarting the space race. It wasn’t market incentives that did that.
- psd1 3mo agoThe USSR performed _somewhat_ well, but i wouldn't say it clearly outperformed the west given the whole "collapse" thing. I could argue the point, but only weakly. It's more illuminating to pick the two exemplars, America and China, because they have many parallels
- tancop 3mo agopeople buy physical games when its an option. take god of war ragnarok where more than 60% of copies sold were on disk. its a totally different situation from niche products with no existing supply chain. sony numbers are distorted because most third party games are digital only, and the average players preference for physical is not so strong that they wouldnt buy the game at all. its also not counting sharing or second hand sales so the number of players on physical is even higher.
- ectospheno 3mo agoI have five PS5 discs from around launch. Gifts. It is such a pain finding them and putting them in only to download a patch anyway. I’d sell them but I don’t want to perpetuate them as a thing so I’ll likely just throw them away.
- tonyhart7 3mo agowhy tf you have five PS5