PlayStation sold more PS5 without BD reader than the one with. Consumers have already voted

No.

• most people don't know about it
• many actual children won't care
• many "gamers" are little better than children

I'll answer with a question that should well serve as an answer

What boycott?

No. Convenience always wins. Same reason people decided streaming is better than owning.

Some percent of those upset and boycotting will simply give it up. These things have about a 2-4 week lifespan. Then they'll just miss their PlayStation and everything will be over, except they'll own even less.

Noup, it's not going to have any effect. Like the other person said. People have already voted with their wallets and will keep voting the same way, because for some reason. Not buying something is completely unthinkable to way too many people.

The disk battle is the wrong one to fight.

The correct battle is that buying=owning not leasing.

If I know gamers, it will be just as effective as the Modern Warfare 2 PC boycott back in the day

Nope.

I don't think it will matter to them if I boycott them. But that won't stop me of not buying their products.
Same thing with Target - my yearly $200 I spent there before I started my boycott - won't even ping the radar. But my 'boycott' still going strong.

I think people underestimate the power of collective action. People have been underplaying the strengths of these actions in online discourse to the point where I wonder if its coordinated.

Being loud and boycotting does work. And even if it doesn't why support anti consumer practices.

Nope. You will own nothing and you will love it.

(Nobody was buying disks – boycott for DRM free offline or something useful)

If there's an actual boycott - yes it will work. Will EVERYONE refuse to buy their products?

Yeah... right.

When was the last time a boycott worked?

The lack of affordability in the console space will do more. I'd ballpark 95% of playstation purchasers have no idea about Sony's announcement. And when it finally happens, they'll just do whatever they need to do to make the game run. But if they just can't justify the money it takes to do what they need to do, then sony won't get the money, and they'll notice.

But no, playstation won't notice the blip of people who refuse to purchase for long-term ownership reasons.

No. Its that simple.

People will keep using the playstation, people will keep playing games, buying shit etc. Its wishful thinking that the boycott will do anything other the slightly lower overall numbers. The equivalent of a normal workday.

no

No.

People already buy digital games at greater rates for years, plus most digital games havent been the full game for a while now. Some of them are literally just download codes now.

Also, boycotts and protests almost never work.

All I know is I’m not buying shit from them again.

It's working for me. I didn't even know about the boycott and I still don't have a playstation. It must have succeeded in controlling the narrative.

Nope. PCs haven't had physical games for well over a decade. Even "physical" games like Battlefield 1 just had a code in them, and that was 2016, a decade ago now. Discs were going away for PC games by the early 10s. I've been surprised that consoles held out for as long as they did, considering the always online stuff, the updates, seasonal DLC, DRM, etc. I miss when games were feature complete, like Pokemon Emerald or the early Sonic franchise.

I would like to be able to legally resell my digital games that I don't want anymore.

Nope, nobody really cares about physical media or owning anything anymore

No. And even if PS and their home electronics division died, Sony has their hands in too many pies for it to hurt them longterm as a company; they're in the cine and ENG industries, they make still cams, they make image sensors for everyone, and last time I thought they also had an industrial imaging division, Sony as a company will be fine even if they lost PS and their home electronics division.

To put it bluntly, Sony is in the position now, that RCA was in when they were in their prime, only Sony has yet to have a CED moment where RCA killed themselves in their stupidity with the CED. And no, Betamax and MD don't count as neither of those formats killed Sony as a company, the CED otoh, killed RCA as a company.

No it wont.

Since covid, physical media has been declining sales. Since games and other media are only getting larger, it makes sense to have it digitally instead of multiple disks. Consoles and PCs are being made without disk drives.

The boycott wont do anything now but I think once they actually stop releasing physical games a lot of people will move to switch to continue collecting, or to PC since it’s more convenient for digital games. If it’s enough to make them change course, I don’t know, but I sure hope so.