re: Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation

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Cyabra did an investigation and analysis into the PlayStation physical backlash. Below are some of its findings:

"The boycott campaign’s visibility created an opening that inauthentic accounts moved into. Cyabra identified 842 inauthentic accounts in the conversation, making up roughly 25% of the boycott narrative. Their behavior was more targeted than their share suggests, and their content generated 113,444 engagements and 1,031,105 potential views. Rather than competing for reach in original posts, they concentrated in the reply sections of official PlayStation handles, where as much as 43% of comments on relevant posts were inauthentic.

The hashtag data makes the pattern visible. The campaign’s own hashtag, #PhysicalForever, ran at 8.2% inauthentic, close to the dataset average. Misspelled and reordered variants, #NoDiskNoBuy and #ForeverPhysical, ran at 86-89% inauthentic. These near-identical tags didn’t originate from the campaign. They were built alongside it, designed to look like it, and almost entirely automated.

Individually, inauthentic posts generated little to no engagement. Their impact came from volume: reply sections flooded, hashtags inflated, the apparent scale of the backlash expanded beyond what the organic conversation alone would have produced

On the authentic side, 54.9% of engagement concentrated on just 50 posts from 42 accounts. The most influential post came from an account with 137 followers and generated over 104,000 engagements. 28% of the key posts came from accounts with fewer than 5,000 followers."

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Midnight releases of oot people lined up at Best Buys and Gamestops all around the country.

There's still plenty of interest in games as physical objects and collectibles, especially if they just put a tiny bit of effort into it.

Nintendo slapped a foil seal liner inside and every Nintendo nerd in the planet has to have it.

GTA 6 coulda put some useless doodad inside the physical edition and charged and extra $30 for it and people would have bought it en masse.

Yeah I ordered a physical copy with my switch 2.

Says it won’t be here until the 13th though so I have to wait a whole week before I can jump into this :(

We still can bring back HD DVDS.