Yeah like there are still reasons if much prefer to keep them around, but games change so much after release in ways other media does not. Physical copies of new games do essentially nothing for preservation for the same reason.

You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

Nearly half of the weather balloons in the lower 48 are missing because of DOGE

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

Nintendo is the elephant wandering through both rooms

Physical media forever.

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Literally just by a PC. Save your money, buy a decent PC that will last you 10 years of not just gaming, but also work functionality. Xbox and Playstation are just shitty PC peddlers at this point.

I feel like we're not talking about how "gender tests" for participation in girls sports IS SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS

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I’m a trans teacher fleeing Florida with my wife. I’m literally on the road north as I type this. It feels even more urgent today.

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

My child loves going to the library and checking out a new video game every week. Going digital only eliminates libraries as a way people can access games.

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PlayStation in 2026

Do NOT use it. Veiled trainer scooping all your work. Anyone needing to prove didn't use AI will have an easy time when managing to defend the creation as they know it from its inception and can perfectly explain the details, the sources, the connections, the colourful landscapes.

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We're in the late rounds of the "God awful video game decisions" championship bout, Sony and Microsoft are still throwing haymakers, and they're committed to going the distance

I can't help but think gaming is in a really, really, really bad place right now. Things like this, massive layoffs across the industry losing thousands of talented people who will never return, and the continual refocus on the Hollywoodification of games in general. I hate it.

Hey, you know how AI has made hard drives stupidly fucking expensive? Let's do away with physical media! My name is John Sony and I am very smarp

we gotta figure out how to pirate and burn console games onto discs again now more than ever

There is a knock-on effect from this decision that is hard to fathom. Every aspect of it is a vicious attack on the industry and fans. Just more and more perspectives on why this is a terrible decision.

Another thought on this - storage space (ie - SSDs) have increased so sharply in price that storing digital games is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive. Discs are DIRT CHEAP to produce - so even if you have to install them, you have a physical, cheap solution right there.

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I don’t wanna come across as a bootlicker cause the system has multiple problems of its own but it legit feels like the Switch 2 is the only console that gives at least SOME decent reasons to buy it over a PC

fuckin disgusting

game company: game will be $80-$100 person: that's pretty steep ill wait til it goes on sale game company: game's on sale! digital only person: on neat ill grab that and in a couple years when the physical price goes down ill grab that game company: IN RESPONSE TO SHIFTING TRENDS IN CONSUMER PRE

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It's official, Sony has completely forfeited the grandma-buying-you-a-game-at-Target-for-your-birthday market to Nintendo.

big companies realizing with every passing day that this shit sucks and doesn't work when the average person has known it for years now would be pretty funny if it wasn't so sad

- Future of your digital library is up in the air - “Closed Garden” digital means no incentive to push deals - Preservation of titles becomes questionable - You aren’t going to see cheaper MSRPs with this move. There’s literally no benefit to the consumer in removing physical.

Support all your favourite indies doing physical releases, we don't have much of it left and it means so much for them to have the games they worked on in a tangible form

To this point, I will also reiterate that PS3 and PS Vita digital download preservation remains incomplete, particularly for Japanese games and DLC, where I imagine the bulk of that work has taken place abroad. This essentially gives a one-year deadline to plug some sizeable, yet quite tricky holes.

Some of you should be less concerned with physical media and more concerned with physical contact (with another consenting person)

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Thoughts on PlayStation, Rockstar and most likely XBOX abandoning physical media for console videogames.

As a company on a mission to preserve video games, we are deeply saddened by the recent news from PlayStation on ending physical disc production from 2028. We aim to do everything in our power to preserve video games to the best of our ability and will continue to do so for as long as we can.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Yeah, Nintendo sucks but laying off employees, investing in AI, and killing physical media is way more damaging than 20 bucks for a GBA ROM.

It’s not that people hate Nintendo too much, it’s that they don’t hate Sony and Microsoft enough. All the major companies have been incrementally, systematically destroying the best parts about gaming. Nintendo raising their prices really is the least of our worries.

That's basically what I've been saying. I don't love every decision Nintendo makes, but when their competition is making demonstrably worse choices, I really feel like any hate directed toward Nintendo is either overblown or willfully ignorant.

Nintendo are far from a perfect company but man I can't take the hate they get seriously when everyone else is killing what I love about games. The people that make them and the tangibility that makes them more than data on a drive. It's never been so dire and they feel like all the hope remaining