Sony count bundled games, even if they are a digital code, as a physical sale.

You basically couldn’t buy a PS5 that wasn’t bundled with one of these games for years.

It was clearly a bug, and it only affected child accounts. It was also a Windows 11 bug, didn’t affect xbox consoles.

We know that Xbox won’t let you use a second account to play games you purchased on your original account on the same device

Yes they do. Any account in your home console can play all of your digital games. Stop spreading lies.

Again - it’s 10% of the total Linux amount. It’s a lot.

The article isn’t saying Linux is dying, neither am I. Who is?

Of course you can only re-sell your purchase once 🤣

OK good that you at least edited your statement about the disk drive out, because that was wrong.

In to the Xbox One announcement, you’re leaving out very important information - the fact that they were allowing trading/re-selling and loaning of said digital games. All the benefits of physical games bright to digital copies.

So install windows on the steam machine?

What are you talking about?

Wouldn’t surprise me if they stopped giving sales numbers soon, like they did with the PS3 and vita. Their current gen sales have completely dried up atm thanks to the price increases, and they don’t want to present that.

Once people understand that now is the cheapest they’re going to be for a long time they’ll start selling again though, but with Xbox lucky to sell a few thousand consoles a month and not announcing their sales figures, Sony don’t need to release figures either.

When you only have 4% to begin with, 0.3% is not a blip lol. It’s almost 10% of your install base.

You’re misremembering too. They didn’t want to kill the used game market. You were still going to be able to trade in your games.

Their original Xbox One system was the best of both physical and digital combined in one.

It is better for many people. It all depends on what you prefer. I personally prefer having a full digital library that I can share via home console sharing, that I can access at any time from any Internet connected console at any time, that I don’t have to worry about my kids damaging or losing my disks, and that I can just buy and play at any time of day. I’m middle aged with kids, I’m not loaning games to friends or trading games in.

It costs more of my time to drive to the shops to buy a game than I’d save over buying digital, and as you get older you understand that time is the most important thing you have.

It’s much less than 25% actually.

As you said, they’ve got literally all the data on game sales on their platform. They know that digital is the winner for the large majority of their customers. As you said, they know they don’t need physical buyers as they’re people who generally give less money to them anyway.

They will, because it’s the only option and is “the” gaming brand.

Sure, because it’s a PC where everyone has been all digital for a decade, but Sonys change doesn’t just apply to their next console. You think Xbox will stop devs releasing physical games for the series x?

Because retail has never sold digital copies before.

Well that’s not true - you can buy digital codes for some Xbox games at retail, or at least you could, and they often went on sale.

So you are against updates just in principle lol. You’d rather games not get better because of a misguided idea that updates being a thing mean games aren’t “finished” at release.

You also seem to think that only online-only games get frequent updates. That’s not true. Take a game like vampire survivors for example. It must have had a hundred updates by now, and it’s a single player offline game (though they also recently added online multiplayer in a free update). That game will be playable in 30 years time too. Why wouldn’t it?

You are mistaking games that require a persistent online connection as “games that get updates”.

Sony fanboy? 🤣 I think Sony are a terrible company, and PlayStation is anti-consumer with terrible hardware and games. I’m a pc and Xbox player. Haven’t owned a PS since the PS3, and stopped using it a few years after release.

Both PlayStation and Xbox allow you to download games that have been delisted if you own them. Have since forever. You should do a bit more research before you speak.

They can’t really improve it though, because publishers and devs don’t want to make their game available for free, which is essentially what putting it on gog does.

So you’re just hoping Microsoft also get rid of discs because you don’t want them to still sell them if Sony doesn’t. Gotcha.