I am not a fan of discs (i can't even remember when i last used one tbh, must be decades), but i am a fan of conservation and transferable licences. This move creates a completely unpreservable generation of video games until the thing gets jailbroken to hell and back, which can take years - whatever games appear and disappear in that timeframe might be lost forever. Damn, at least you can resell Nintendos Game Keycards.

Just staggeringly anti-consumer. I guess this will be my last console generation then, I refuse to not have a disc drive and no second hand market

I remember a certain PS4 promo of one Sony exec handing a game to another after after the reveal of the Xbox one. Competition is a good thing

They know very well what they are doing. The market is saturated with good games, and they want to cut off the second hand market entirely. You cannot resell digital games.

No resale, no buy.

Companies think and make decisions in this way all the time, against consumer planned obsolescence is a fundamental part of their philosophy. Usually it is in ways that are too technical or esoteric for the general user to follow but here they have forgot themselves and made a play that is obvious to a great many of their customers.

I'm sort of okay with this. Discs are antiquated in 2026. They should at least throw us consumers a bone with a PlayStation that plays all legacy games.