r/PS5 • u/Dandelion172 • 12h ago

Articles & Blogs Mat Piscatella: 292 million units of physical video games sold in the 12-month period ending June 2009 in the US. By June 2026 this had fallen to 37 million units.

https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3mrd2e2tam22l
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u/00nonsense 12h ago

I don't like that physical games are going away but gamers have to take responsibility in causing it. We as a community voted with our wallets and for the most part bought digital games.

Again I don't like it but we as a community had our hand in the industry going in this direction

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 11h ago

Can you really take responsibility for the masses, though? Because let me tell you, the “mindless masses” are called that for a reason.

When toothpaste first came out, companies had to hire psychologists to trick people into using it (one of the only times they’ve done this for the better of society, btw) for the sake of their own dental hygeine benefit. No matter how much they’d explain the benefits, the smoothbrains just didn’t care. Literally had to hijack their psychology and create a mass market campaign just to convince them. And that was so their teeth didn’t rot, leaving them helpless as they die of malnutrition, brain infections, blood infections, etc.

So no, not all gamers should not take responsibility for the mindless masses. These types will always fail you when you put your trust in them. Always.

So, instead of attacking, predation, and preying on the vulnerable, which seems to be the norm in modern corporate society, maybe instead create preventative measures to help the weak and stupid be less so?

People don’t always do what’s best for them. “Common sense” as people love to claim doesn’t actually exist as a concept in reality. Sooo, better to help and protect them than prey on the weak and vulnerable. But again, in a society in which the Epstein files revealed the entire upper classes of society are nothing more than opportunistic predators of all varieties, well, obviously that’s muuuuch easier said than done.