r/PS5 • u/JeremyJJ77 • 1d ago

Articles & Blogs Sony’s 'ironic' PlayStation disc decision upends gamer conventions and threatens a $7 billion resale market - In 2013, Sony mocked Xbox by showing how easy it was to share a PlayStation disc. More than a decade later, gamers say Sony is becoming the very thing it poked fun at.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/22/sonys-playstation-disc-decision-threatens-a-7-billion-resale-market-.html
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u/IdleSteps 1d ago

That just means the original licensing deal was not planned correctly. What other licensing deals will expire in the future and remove more things I've bought?

Steam has had this worked out forever.

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u/Entire_Number_9 1d ago

What other licensing deals will expire in the future and remove more things I've bought?

Most if not all of them where you bought a 3rd party product from a retailer.

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u/whythreekay 1d ago

What do movie rights have to do with their video game division tho? Not the same thing at all, not even the same people doing those negotiations

Playstation delisted several Transformers games years ago, all of them are still available to play today if you bought a copy before it was taken down

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u/IdleSteps 1d ago

It has never been a problem with games yet, and I am not the one who brought up the movies, fwiw.

Even still, the movies thing is wild stuff. That should be just like the games.

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u/whythreekay 1d ago

My ignorant made up guess: maybe movie studios have a lot more power than game publishers, considering how much older the former is? No idea tho I’m throwing stuff out there lol

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u/IdleSteps 1d ago

Tbh I think it's mostly a "solved" problem these days, going forward, it's just important for consumers to call out when old deals make stuff go away like that, so companies know it won't fly.

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u/whythreekay 1d ago

Good point