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Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles (blog.playstation.com)
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[–] 44 points 2 months ago (11 children)

So PS6 is in 2028 and will not come with a physical drive reader so they can cut off access to anything at anytime for whatever reason. Also you need to show your government issued ID which will totally never be used to lock down your media or surveillance your activities.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Even with a physical drive reader they can still cut off access at any time. Tbh I never really understood the value of a physical disc when its contents are heavily encrypted and this is the natural path for proprietary consoles where regular internet access is enforced and you can lose the "privilege" to play the game you bought at a whim anyways.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, DRM with or without the internet is a major problem in this space and the "physical only" people refuse to even consider this aspect.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Sure but with a physical disk the data can be dumped and cracked with enough time/effort

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    I think the era of functioning application shipped on the disk is kinda over so dumping the data on it wont count for much anyway. Knowing sony though they’ll never learn how to not make a crackable console considering their track record for this.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There are still lots of games that run from the disc. I just got the BG3 collector's edition that came with two disc's for that reason, same thing with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and others. I've played my Dark Souls 3 disc copy when I was going a little crazy from an internet outage before. There's others. It's mostly single-player of course, and you'll miss day one or future patches, but they exist.

    I mostly know this because I'm a console player and unless it's free to play or extremely cheap, I always buy disc's, and usually used.

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