[VectorLock]

They want this even more than they want $100 games. Rockstar not shipping discs for GTA6 and PlayStation ending disc production is the perfect two pronged approach.

Honestly gamers have been stomaching this for decades with Steam so Sony wants in on some of that sweet sweet action as well.

[somenameforme]

I don't think this is really comparable at all. Sony is trying to kill off the used game market in hope of being able to coerce people into paying more. Steam is basically one giant used game market in that you get stuff constantly for 50-90% off.

And pirating stuff off Steam is generally extremely trivial, so it's a largely coercion-free business-customer relationship, and I think that's a large part of why they're doing so well. People like to support businesses that treat them well. And for those that don't? Well I think there's a reason that video game piracy is plummeting, while film/media/streaming piracy is surging.

[Jiro]

Prices on Steam are set arbitrarily. Getting things at "50-90% off" could just as well be described as sometimes getting them at normal price and otherwise getting them at 2-10 times normal price.

It's not a used game market unless you can transfer it to other people an unlimited number of times without the original company getting a say.

[somenameforme]

I have no idea what world you're living in. No prices on Steam are anywhere near 2x the "normal" price, let alone 10x. Companies that set their prices to the typical MSRP are generally seen as largely out of touch (with Japanese companies being particularly renowned for this), let alone above MSRP.

[Jiro]

50% off is equivalent to sometimes being normal and sometimes being 2x normal. Likewise, 90% off is equivalent to sometimes being normal and sometimes being 10 times normal.

If something costs $10 "normally" and is $1 with a "discount of 90%" you can just as easily say it costs $1 "normally" with the $10 being 10 times "normal". It's purely arbitrary which one you label as the normal price.

[somenameforme]

I have no idea what argument you're trying to make, or if this is just some bizarre semantic thing. The normal price is the non-discounted price. In some domains like clothing where there is a perpetual 50% off a price that never is set that high, that's an exception - but one that has nothing to do with Steam.

[VectorLock]

>Steam is basically one giant used game market in that you get stuff constantly for 50-90% off.

I don't think thats comparable at all. You're not buying used games, you're buying discounted games. Sony can discount games too. Steam doesn't have a secondary market either.

We just seem to trust Valve more to not rugpull our purchases.

[overfeed]

> They want this even more than they want $100 games

Killing the secondary market for games hasten how soon they can sell $100 games.