r/videogames • u/TheDuckClock • Sep 10 '26

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This is just wild. PlayStation wanted to end their partnership with Hideo Kojima. So Xbox was like: "Your loss."

This year is really starting to feel like an inverse of 2014 when Xbox ruined their public image with some insane Always Online DRM requirements and PlayStation capitalized on that.

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u/theinfernumflame Sep 10 '26

They clearly think they're too big to fail, and it's up to consumers to show them otherwise.

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u/Ok_Science_8502 Sep 10 '26

They are too big to fail. It's sad but even if 20% of all PS5 gamers worldwide boycotted them (and trust me it won't be anywhere near 20% doing that) they would still be perfectly fine. People are mad at Sony but not so mad that they're just gonna stop playing video games on the console they own

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u/Turtlefan87 Sep 10 '26

They absolutely would not be fine—shareholders would not tolerate this in the slightest.

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u/Ok_Science_8502 Sep 10 '26

Well 20% is definitely an overestimation, I'll admit. I'd be surprised if it were even 5%. And if Sony loses 5% of their customers by killing physical games, they will easily make that money back because they now have a monopoly on game sales and can simply charge more. Not to mention other ways of squeezing money out of people that they're trying right now like dynamic pricing

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u/Turtlefan87 Sep 10 '26

Yeah, I’m sure they ran the numbers on this and that’s why they think they can absorb the blowback from discontinuing physical.