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Harvey Randall

Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'

Art of a monopoly man, promptly after breaking a disk which serves as the "0" in "2028". .

Sony's decision to stop selling physical disks for its games makes a certain kind of sense from a mercilessly realist point of view—I'd be a hypocrite if I, a person with the majority of my games on one platform (Steam), shook my fist and wept for the end of physical media.

But aside from the sentimental concerns—which, honestly, I don't hold as any less important, there's more to life than money—there is a capitalist argument against the move, too, for both the consumer and the people who make videogames. If Sony ends physical disk sales, Sony decides how much a game on the PlayStation costs, forever.

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