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posted by martyb on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the Sony-can-be-trusted dept.

Remember the days of buying disks to play games on a console? Right. Like, yesterday. Sony is upping its game for digital delivery with the introduction of PS5 Digital Edition which is currently available to be pre-ordered by PSN members in good standing. This sets the PS5 apart from the other consoles from the last generation making it one step closer to having all games delivered by and available only from The Cloud.

Interested? Register on-line to get your chance to pre-order. Pricing has not yet been announced.

Does this mean rootkits will be distributed from The Cloud instead of by disk in the future?


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:26PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:26PM (#1044392)

    Digital-only holds no interest for me. For my PS4 I've bought several games that were sold in the SE Asia market with English subtitles, that were not made available in the North American market. They play on my North American PS4 just fine. They're usually not released in NA either because the maker doesn't think it would sell well, or they don't want the bother of various groups bitching that an Asian game isn't adhering to whatever the NA purity spiral is bitching about this week.

    I'm pretty sure that a digital-only PS5 in NA would only give me access NA games, and I'm not going to bother trying to get a PS5 set up on some kind of VPN to spoof my location, or tweak settings somewhere, etc. I'm not that into gaming to make it worth my time. No discs, no sale.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:46PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:46PM (#1044402) Journal

    This could be the last console generation to use discs. They obviously want to kill them off, but now they should be around until... 2027? Then they will try to go download/cloud-only, possibly with no new hardware releases.

    There may be support in PS5 for quad-layer Blu-ray (128 GB).

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Monday August 31 2020, @12:07AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 31 2020, @12:07AM (#1044407) Journal

    Digital-only holds no interest for me.

    So... you would like a PS console with an analog Blu-Ray** reader? (grin)

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @12:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @12:11AM (#1044409)

      Touché. I forgot where I was posting. :D

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @12:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @12:10AM (#1044408)
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @11:06AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @11:06AM (#1044530)

    I still can't play games that were only released in Japan unless it's ripped. Think about that. They won't take my money.