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One is american, the other is european

It's the same with gaming

When Microsoft is killing physical in 2023 to push for Gamepass and digital only, it's labeled as "progress and infrastructure planning", when it's Sony that does it, it's labeled as "greed and anti consumerism"

Hopefully more people get attentive to how the industry & the media works, and how US Big Tech manages to kill any form of alternative

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> When Microsoft is killing physical in 2023 to push for Gamepass and digital only, it's labeled as "progress and infrastructure planning", when it's Sony that does it, it's labeled as "greed and anti consumerism"

Microsoft got massive pushback when they did it, Sony even made ad making fun of it. Selective memory much ?

Well Microsoft’s PR machine is working overtime then because I wasn’t even aware of Microsoft doing this until this HN thread whereas Sony was everywhere on social media

You are conflating two separate events:

-2013 DRM/always online drama (reversed pre launch)

-2023 shutdown of its physical release division, which is what triggered shift to digital only titles we are seeing now

Different year, different mechanism, different reception and different press coverage

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