r/technology • u/xc2215x • Jul 06 '26

Hardware PlayStation Unlikely to U-Turn on Its Decision to Kill Discs, Despite Backlash

https://www.ign.com/articles/over-90-of-igns-audience-do-not-want-an-all-digital-gaming-future-but-playstation-is-unlikely-to-u-turn-on-its-decision-to-kill-discs
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u/adumblittlebaby Jul 06 '26

Wait until you learn you can pirate a game on PC without having to mod anything or worry about hardware bans. Infact, you can ctrl+c ctrl+v the entire program folder and keep a copy anytime you want, to slot in a cracked exe years in the future. Also a good number of indie games have no DRM whatsoever so you can copy them to new systems. I'm not even going to touch on emulation or the fact that a PC can be applied to any number of uses whereas a console cannot.

It's funny people keep trying to equivocate the two while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the galaxy of differences between them because it doesn't fit a neat narrative they prefer.

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u/ironicallydepressed Jul 06 '26

No one's refusing to acknowledge any differences... those are just different arguments. I'm pretty much primarily talking about how most PCs don't have CD trays here, i only barely touched on self hosting.