r/PlaystationCollectors

Aren't we all adults? Or are we still in our parents basement hiding behind a keyboard?

With the recent news of physical media going away, I thought as a community, we would've came together as one. Like a big family.

But I've seen so many negative, hateful comments from those who prefer digital in why we shouldn't care about physical. It's outstanding. It's High School behavior.

Some prefer digital, some don't. That choice is ours and it makes come together as one when we game.

This isn't about pros and cons. It's about choice. I'm not fully against digital, I just want that freedom of choice. I have always preferred physical. This news doesn't impact digital gamers at all. So why are they weighing in and telling us we're basically "idiots" for preferring that? We all have our reasons. It shouldn't dictate us.

This is all about protecting our freedom to what we choose to spend with our money. Thats it. Nothing more. Everything else is just noise. The arguments about not owning it, or no memory space, is just meaningless at this point.

We need to come together and fight this harder than before. Don't people usually find their greatest gaming buddies online through multi player games? Yet, this news shed a darker image of what gamers are truly like.

If you are going to come in here and start posting statistics about how digital is doing better than physical, I hope mods who view this thread will delete them. I don't care if 98% buy things digital. This is ABOUT choice.

Can we all just put aside our feelings and fight together on this? Keep physical media alive for those that decide they want it. End of discussion.

Hey everyone...

With the industry pushing hard toward an all-digital future, the lack of competition on the PlayStation Store is starting to feel crazy to me.

If you buy physical games, you get a free market i.e. Amazon, Walmart, and GameStop compete, drop prices, and sell used copies. But the second you go all-digital, Sony has a 100% monopoly. They dictate the price, period.

Remember back in 2019 when you could buy digital game codes on Amazon or Best Buy? Sony intentionally banned third-party retailers from selling them. By doing that, they actively killed off any price competition.

I used to think maybe I was overreacting, but apparently, class-action lawsuits in both the US and the UK are currently suing Sony for billions over this exact thing, claiming it violates antitrust laws and inflates prices.

As physical media slowly dies out, it feels like we’re losing all consumer leverage.

Do you think antitrust pressure will ever force Sony to allow third-party digital stores or code sales again? Or are we just stuck paying whatever they want to charge?

Please just get more physical copies of games to stop shutdown of physical game production