PlayStation has been in hot water over the past few days, and while it's not hot enough to overturn its decision to destroy the physical games market, it's been spicy enough to stop posting on social media. Every corner of the Internet has been dunked on the company, from physical retailers to pizza chain Domino's.
It's not exactly universally shared among gamers, but the controversy has fueled it, and even high-profile PlayStation figures like former Sony president Shawn Leyden are coming out and disagreeing with the changes.
Shawn Layden is also against the PlayStation's physical changes
“I didn't know it was going to happen,” Leyden said in an interview with Eurogamer. “I don't necessarily agree with it but I don't work in the business anymore. It would be too prohibitively expensive to stamp out discs.”
“If you look at any decision to discontinue a product or a feature or a model or what have you, it's pretty much a straightforward spreadsheet. [decision]. What are disc sales compared to digital sales? And I'm old enough to remember when digital sales were like 10 percent — I'm old enough to remember when digital sales were zero percent because we didn't have a digital market! And that number grew over time.”
Of course, Leyden is running into trouble with a more pragmatic approach, given his relationship with PlayStation and how little stake he has in the fight, but it's nice to know that even high-profile former executives aren't completely on board with what PlayStation is doing.
This may mean that not everyone is currently on board with PlayStation, and it is unlikely that the company is going to reverse its decision, since at this point it has been itching to abandon physical releases for some time, the pressure may finally come to the company if things start to move towards. If there's one thing that's true, online complaints usually work.
- brand
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Sony
- Original release date
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November 12, 2020
- Original MSRP (USD)
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$499, €499, £449, ¥49,980 (base) // $399, €399, £359, ¥39,980 (digital),
- operating system
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Orbis OS
- processor
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Custom 8-core AMD Zen 2
- resolve
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720p – 8K
