1
Mrexreturns 1 point ago +1 / -0

At one point RAMs will be SCALPED and the only PCs you can use are useless Windows 98 compatibles.

1
Mrexreturns 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's not an AI beast system, it's a worldwide labor camp with lots of AI spycams and AI-powered torture gear.

1
Mrexreturns 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think you can draw the parallels with modern pop culture and Roman culture.

Enshittified, destroyed, regressed, stagnated.

By the same group of death-mongering Globalists working for Judea rather than Rome or the nations, no less.

4
Mrexreturns 4 points ago +4 / -0

Sony has said it won’t change its mind on killing PlayStation discs in 2028, while acknowledging “strong views” from the video game community.

The online backlash has seen gamers continue to call on Sony to U-turn on its decision, signing online petitions and swarming over PlayStation social media posts to express concern about video game preservation and ownership — even overshadowing the release of new games that have nothing to do with what’s going on at Sony. Meanwhile, backers of physical media have called on gamers to boycott PlayStation for a week in August to send a message to Sony that its decision to kill discs from 2028 is unacceptable.

Complaints have also come from other groups. The UK’s Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA), for example, called Sony’s decision “a triumph of corporate convenience over consumer choice.”

Following the release of its first quarter financial results today, Sony held an investor-focused Q&A in which it answered questions from analysts. Inevitably, Sony was asked about its decision to stop selling PlayStation discs. In Sony's first comments on the issue since the announcement was made on July 1, chief financial officer Lin Tao, speaking through a live interpreter during the call, signalled the company’s intention to go through with it.

Here’s the response in full:

“We announced that January 2028 onwards we will no longer be manufacturing game discs. So, one-and-a-half years ahead. So we made this announcement at this time.

“There are various reasons we made this decision. The biggest being that the digitalization of contents overall has been progressing. That’s the big factor. It’s not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of contents, digitalization is progressing.

“And so when we think about the future — and we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we’re going to cautiously move this forward.

“And to this decision, we have received various opinions and people have strong views, and we understand that the community has put forth those views to us. Games are loved by many people. It’s a form of entertainment that’s loved by people, and it’s connected to people’s fond memories in many cases.

“And so we understand those emotions. We want to consider that. And in the future digital ecosystem, how do we engage the gamers is something that we would like to continue to explore.”

Essentially, Tao is saying Sony won’t budge despite the backlash. And in that final line is there a hint at a possible method for preserving physical discs digitally?

When Sony announced its decision it said it was simply following consumer trends. “In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only,” Sid Shuman, Senior Director, Sony Interactive Entertainment Content Communications, said in a post on PlayStation Blog.

“As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital, physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting January 2028. Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only. This transition has no impact on games that already released, or will be releasing, prior to January 2028 in disc format.

“This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs. This transition will enable us to align more closely with how most of our community prefers to access and play games today."

Reinforcing this trend, Mat Piscatella, Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana, said that just seven PlayStation video games had sold more than 100,000 physical units so far this year in the U.S.. Only two PlayStation video games sold more than 10,000 physical units in the U.S. during the week ending July 11.

There are of course instances of companies reversing controversial decisions amid a backlash, but, as analysts have told IGN, it remains unlikely that Sony will U-turn on this.

Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games, suggested that even if half a million people cancelled their PlayStation Plus subscription in protest, it would be just a drop in the ocean for Sony.

"I sympathize with physical media fans, but Sony will not reverse this decision," Toto told IGN. "They of course knew what the online reaction would look like, and they now wait for this storm to pass.

"Sony has over 120 million active PlayStation users," he continued. "Around 50 million people subscribe to PlayStation Plus. As a thought experiment, let's say 500,000 cancel in protest, that would be just 1% of that business gone — of course not enough for Sony to start rethinking. Digital is just too lucrative."

Piers Harding-Rolls, games industry analyst at Ampere, has said a lot has changed over the course of the last two generations. "Console gaming is the last hold-out for physical media in the gaming sector, but physical product has been declining in importance," he said in a post on the Ampere website. "Back in 2013 when the PS4 launched, Ampere data shows that only 13% of total full games unit sales for Sony consoles were digital (including digital-only games). Fast forward to 2025, and this digital share of full game purchases stood at almost 80% of the total.

"Inevitably there will be concerns from PlayStation gamers around various aspects of this announcement including choice, accessing older physical games on new consoles, the ability to collect physical games, and game preservation, however the purchasing trends of gamers are clear."

One analyst said fans of physical media had their chance and blew it, so there’s no going back. “If gamers and preservationists had bought more physical games, Sony wouldn’t have seen the digital sales ratios that justify this decision,” Robin Zhu, a games analyst at Bernstein, told the Financial Times.

For Sony, going all-digital for new game releases will earn it more money from every sale at a time when console sales are expected to plummet due to their rising cost. For a first-party PlayStation game such as The Last of Us, Sony will only keep around 65% of the money from a physical copy, with around 30% going to the retailer and roughly another 5% on manufacturing costs. Meanwhile, for a physical copy of a third-party game such as the Activision-published Call of Duty, Sony will get a licensing fee, likely around 15%.

For downloads, however, the margins are much higher. For a first-party game sold via Sony's own PlayStation Store, the company obviously keeps 100% of the revenue. For third-party games such as Call of Duty, meanwhile, Sony keeps a 30% cut (so, roughly $21 for a $70 game).

2
Mrexreturns 2 points ago +2 / -0

you will own nothing and you will be happy

You will go out and kill and you will be happy.

1
Mrexreturns 1 point ago +1 / -0

Humanity will be dragged into the same level as Somalians and Nigerians.

2
Mrexreturns 2 points ago +2 / -0

AI generation tools are not reverse image search.

Also if the only reverse image search that works is google (mind you, SauceNAO used to work but now it just stopped updating or whatever), you have a problem.

2
Mrexreturns 2 points ago +2 / -0

that we can't figure out how to go to the moon from scratch in the 21st century when allegedly NASA did it in just 9 years back in the 20th century? lmao even.

You can't anymore when the UN starts declaring everyone with even a brain cell to be a sinner unfit for the real world and is thus only fit for the concentration camp. At one point humanity will even forget how to use electricity and create plastic.

2
Mrexreturns 2 points ago +2 / -0

Reminder that the Roman Empire is famous for its aqueducts but after the Christians destroyed it from the inside, most people don't even know what an aqueduct is anymore before it got reinvented in the 19th century.

History repeats.

1
Mrexreturns 1 point ago +1 / -0

When the Globalhomo destroys Rome, history dies.

When Obama transferred the technical ownership of the Internet to ICANN, humanity lost before the battle began.

2
Mrexreturns 2 points ago +2 / -0

The elites do NOT care about money. They only care about destroying society and ruling over the remains as gods.

3
Mrexreturns 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's exactly what I warned about.

And they will do it by global labor camps as dictated on Agenda 21.

Essentially Khmer Rouge-type "start over" on a global scale.

1
Mrexreturns 1 point ago +1 / -0

The same as the Fall of Rome, the French Revolution, Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Khmer Rouge, Rwanda 1994, and Euromaidan.

Mass death.

Literally mass murder for the sake of before they are overthrown.

Every person will be thrown to a labor camp at the other side of the world where they live in, at which they will starve to death and anyone with a brain cell will be sent by negroes to be gassed. This is while the megacities are inhabited by only a handful of billionaires

At the end of the 4-year tribulation period, 95% of humanity will die out and only browns, blacks and literal children will remain.

5
Mrexreturns 5 points ago +5 / -0

Oasis Management is a Jewish company BTW.

Gentile cultures CANNOT be allowed to exist in the eternal Judeo-Christian NWO utopia.

1
Mrexreturns 1 point ago +1 / -0

Print them.

At one point technology will simply cease to exist and the only people walking the earth will be islamic caliphates eating and killing each other.

I do not believe those people even know how to operate a computer 30 years later after killing their globalist masters.

4
Mrexreturns 4 points ago +4 / -0

It will not matter when you are being sent to a labor camp in the Cameroon by cargo plane alongside a couple hundred others.

It might help in the big collapse, but it will not in the aftermath.

Whatever happens next, it will NEVER end.

3
Mrexreturns 3 points ago +3 / -0

People need to realize that the Bible is one of the biggest scams in human history, if not the absolute worst. Realizing it is the key to defeating the Elites.

2
Mrexreturns 2 points ago +2 / -0

Have you ever heard of something called anime? Or seen those Japanese magazines with naked teen girls on the cover?

I believe you forgot that Sony and Paypal pretty much got rid of any chance of these showing up save for some very off-hand chance.

Japan rejected Christianity and got what instead? Secularism and atheism, which has no scripture prohibiting degeneracy or even its own ethical foundations that weren't borrowed from Christianity. So their descent into degeneracy is only slowed by tradition and people's consciences, both of which are much more malleable than a book considered to be the ultimate authority.

What you call degeneracy is merely human nature, it is outright eradicating those stuff that leads to full-blown genocide and mass murder. Ironically, countries that burrow their ethnic foundations from Jews are the most vulnerable to multiculturalism and LGBTQ+.

2
Mrexreturns 2 points ago +2 / -0

And they're already more accepting of pedophilia and sexual content in their media.

Do you mean less?

It used to be much more insane before EU busybodies and Payment Processors bodied them. And the lack of it is the beginning of the end.

Also while banning actual CP is pretty much required, laws banning fictional CP are very broad enough that even a small infraction means you're getting arrested or cancelled. And everyone fears that.

Japan isn't based they're just less exposed to the west because they're on the opposite side of the planet and don't speak much English. They're probably just as malleable as every European country has been.

They did reject Christianity after all, if they did, they will end up in a very different situation; if Christianity flies everything else will. They tried to reverse psyop by paying the Japanese military but that did not work too. It was very clear that the Elites cannot easily induce East Asia into Globalism, and had been spending around a century or two figuring it out.

view more: Next ›