US retailer GameStop – whose total flagging enterprise mannequin is constructed round clients shopping for bodily video games – took a swipe at clients through the PSN outage this weekend, because it mocked gamers for overwhelmingly buying digital video games.
“Wager y’all need bodily video games now,” it mentioned in response to the downtime, which lasted for nearly a whole day. The message, posted on X (or Twitter), went viral with over 55k likes.
After all, opposite to widespread false impression, digitally downloaded video games can be performed on the PS5 and PS4 even when your consoles are utterly offline.
Nonetheless, these purchases can typically get locked out in case you’re not enjoying in your main account, because the system will not be in a position to establish you personal them. It’s a flaw that admittedly doesn’t exist with bodily video games.
Whereas bodily video games stay an choice on PS5 – and are anticipated to be out there for the PS6 as properly – there’s no query that customers have dramatically transitioned to buying digital downloads, with roughly 70% of Sony’s software program gross sales coming via the PS Retailer.
