Don't forget the part where those physical games mean nothing. Requiring day 1 patches. Meaning, the day those sony servers die, the day after if you've never played that game before? The disc does nothing. It just points to a download, on server, which in this scenario is offline.

Meanwhile, you can still play a ps2 game, on ps2 hardware, and always will be able to. Hell sony could cease to exist, and you can still play GTA Vice City on PS2 50 years from now.

I know PS3s online services have gone offline, but I wonder if this trend of "here's a disc, it requires a download" started on the ps3, or the ps4.

I wonder if I could still buy a disc, and play the game tomorrow.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What? They don’t “require” a day-one patch to play. Disconnect a PS5 from the internet, pop a new game in the drive and it will play just fine without any patches, albeit with whatever bugs the game shipped with (which is a whole different story)

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that's their point, the quality of games has gone down the drain where the golden disc contains basically an alpha version of the game.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

They pretty clearly say the “disc does nothing” which is a different, fallacious claim.

[–] wisely@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is an important topic for game preservation. Makes me wonder if there is a life expectancy for the parts in a PS2?

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Of course there is, capacitors go bad, other parts stop working.

The only fully guaranteed method of preservation is via emulation.