US Representative Ritchie Torres from New York City announced that he will introduce the “Power To The Players Act” citing that digital video games are a rental disguises as a sale🚀 He explained: "When you pay for a game, you should own it. Consumers must have the right to own, the right to play, and the right to transfer the games they buy. A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase. It is a rental disguised as a sale.” If it is passed into law, the bill will protect our ability to own and play purchased games. Source: @RitchieTorres Office It’s about time the firm hand of the law took a stand towards the normalized exploitation of gamers under the excuse of “the company has the right to revoke access at any time for any reason without compensation” and actually preserved players’ rights to own the games they buy, and to be compensated in case said game was removed or account was disabled. There can never be full trust in digital games when you aren’t even able to own what you’re buying. In any case, physical media must be preserved, because it will always be the only and most reliable way to play games and have agency over their usage, and they must contain the ENTIRE game, whether on one disc and four even. NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

Lamenting the fact that this Sony is long gone and whatever we have now is a shell of what is once was, and if this current version of Sony existed in the 1990s and 00s, the company would not exist today🚀 Everything they’re doing now, it’s full of hatred for gamers and creativity. People really need to wake up and get over valuing this company out of loyalty for an image from 2 decades ago. NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

Going back to refuting bad faith arguments against physical media, and false narratives passed on by Sony and the industry, with new info and statements🚀 🗣️“You just want physical games for nostalgia” ✅Physical games represent: A) Ownership B) Competitive pricing C) Second hand market & trading D) No reliance on networks & internet E) Not tied to a user account F) Playable worldwide without region lock G) Collectible value 🗣️“85% of players buy digital” ✅15% or even 5% in this industry is still millions of people bringing in hundreds of millions of not billions o revenue. ✅Statistics have also shown us that in the UK, France, Japan and Australia, physical game sales go higher than %40 and %50 for games like Resident Evil and Assassin’s Creed Shadows. ✅PlayStation’s Wolverine reportedly sold 35% physical in the US & 51% physical in Europe 🗣️“Nobody buys physical games” ✅Several physical games go out of stock for weeks, or ship with a disc that requires downloading more. ✅Physical games don’t lack interest, they lack genuine support. ✅The industry appears to calculate DLC, microtransactions, digital only games and free to play as “digital purchases” which heavily inflates the number of digital games against physical media 🗣️“Netflix and Spotify ended movie and music Blu-Rays and CDs” ✅Movies are still being sold on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD ✅Music still comes to CDs, vinyl and even cassette tapes that actually work ✅Artists use variants of the same vinyl and/or CD to boost sales for how much in demand they ✅PlayStation and Rockstar continue to release their game soundtracks on vinyl multiple vinyl variants, and GTA6 soundtrack is coming to vinyl with liquid inside and 8 other variants along with CDs ✅Despite music being far smaller as files and much more accessible and less demanding than video games which can go over 100GB, digital and streaming did not end physical media 🗣️“It’s expensive to make games on disc” ✅Games will be more expensive if an all digital future is implemented. ✅You will pay the same price for a glorified rental that can be taken any time due to licensing agreements or account loss/suspension. ✅With the absence of competition, regional and dynamic pricing, games can be more expensive than ever ✅Second hand market gives players an option to get games cheaper and keeps the market/pricing in check 🗣️“This is fear-mongering! Sony would never take away your digital games. It never happened to me” ✅It happens to so many people, like the 500 movies that Sony removed from users libraries and many games that come and go regardless of how much you paid for them ✅Buying only a license without a copyright physical component that guarantees ownership could mean you lose the game if your account was hack or suspended, licenses expired or any issues happened with the network 🗣️“Opposing physical media is not a thing. It’s only a niche crying about them online” ✅The outrage extended not only to gaming media but to mainstream media in general, with many celebrities and corporations expressing disdain and ridicule towards Sony ✅Various industry legends including Hideo Kojima, Shawn Layden, Dan Houser, SEGA, Yoko Taro and many others expressed disagreement with the decision citing that physical media is important for ownership, collectible value among other things ✅Digital Foundry’s John Linneman stated that various studios and publishers told him there’s resentment within the industry towards Sony ✅Sony is reportedly surveying creators about how they feel about physical media ✅NYU business professor and gaming analyst Joost van Dreunen gave a statement: “People have a need to collect. That’s where physical sales are still incredibly relevant for the consumer market. The industry is ready to move on, but not so fast. This is increasingly a big part of it.” ✅They hold sentimental value to players and collectors, and that is a big market NO DISC 💿 NO BUY