After almost a week of no updates, PlayStation social media The accounts have become active again and fans have taken the opportunity to shout Sonyhis physical media plans.
On July 1, Sony took to social media to drop the bombshell that it will stop releasing physical games after 2027 and is shutting down the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita digital stores.
This is basically the death knell for physical media, and not just in the video game spaceso the reactions online have been surprisingly extremely negative.
Apparently, PlayStation’s social media accounts have been completely silent for almost a week, only now they have become active again. Not to address the backlash or acknowledge people’s concerns, but to promote a wireless war stick.
It’s not a particularly detailed social media post, consisting of just a 28-second video that doesn’t even show the stick in action, just how easy it is to swap out some of the parts.
The FlexStrike wireless fight stick costs £179.99 and launches on August 6, to coincide with Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, Sony’s new exclusive fighting game in development at Guilty Gear studio Arc System Works.
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Not that poor marketing matters since none of the online backlash has anything to do with the stick and it’s just people bombarding every poor soul running the accounts with their constant frustrations over Sony’s abandonment of physical media.
reaction in X ARE full out edited screens was meant to poke fun at Sony and let the company know that the problem isn’t over and people are still mad. A person we even used their collection of PlayStation games to spell ‘F*** Sony’ and we did dotted OTHER USEFUL the people sharing the same “Greed Has No Limits” modification of the “Play No Limits” slogan.
Given how quickly they’ve arrived, we have to imagine that people have been working on these for the last few days and were just waiting for some sign of life from Sony’s accounts before distributing them.
“After days of silence, after your post got more views in a few days than PlayStation 2 units sold, after gamers started looking for ways to protest your terrible decision to kill physical games… your big response is a video about a peripheral? You’re watching your legacy burn in real time, and somehow you still pretend it’s okay,” read a bemused message from Master Master.
The others HAVE he joked whether the war stick is physical or digital, and Domino’s official account has taken another cheeky photo with “Did anyone order a digital pizza?”
it’s SAME HistoRy long in Blueskywhere a handful of people no doubt have posted the photos of elephants that they require Sony’s address.
While frustration from fans is certainly warranted, and it’s not good that Sony doesn’t address any of it, there’s really nothing the company can do or say to resolve this.
The writing has been on the wall regarding the future of physical games for years, with digital sales far outpacing physical sales, so Sony’s decision, while upsetting, was definitely inevitable.
Plus, Sony is said to have already started reusing the main disc manufacturer into something else, so this is clearly a decision the company was committed to, regardless of the public backlash.
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