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How you tweak it for your personal viewing is up to you. You already can run it through AI tools to add detail or smooth effects or even turn it into a cartoon if you want to.

Will take some time, will use a lot of energy, will require a decent card or a lot of credits but this can be done today.

Personally I don't think anything will improve it, as I don't care for it already. Just had to say it as your claim it's the best trilogy ever is subjective. Much like the results of processing it with AI.

You can still buy them online, so no difference really. Just not on disc, so nothing is stopping people from buying new ones.

“you don’t own the hardware” that’s nonsense, it is the only thing in the console gaming equation that you do own

Let me repeat: you do NOT own the hardware. I mean you own a piece of plastic. You can use it as a boat anchor anytime you want I guess. That's it.

Sony has been forcing console upgrades since the ps3 when you buy a new disc. Sony has also revoked the ability to use discs they sold with the console, also during the ps3 era.

Given that none of this is new, they knew this going in on the ps5. They knew third party publishing on disc was not allowed. They willingly entered this eco system, so I really don't understand the surprise at all.

By the way: Sony isn't ending physical disc manufacture on new games until 2028. Older games, released prior to 2028 are allowed reprints even after that. This should give people time to decide if they want to continue down this road now.

It is the level of anger that throws me off. So fucking what? Sony is a shit company with a constant anti consumer history. Quit bitching about it and quit supporting it.

Your arguments are not unsound, but yelling at sony isn't how they are going to fix it. Stop buying their products will. Most people aren't going to care, they are used to downloading games and updates already. People who love merch buy the fan box sets. Sony knows people will still buy their products.

It affects the existing products by rendering them worthless if the customer were only buying physical games.

They already have the games they bought, so they aren't worthless. They just don't get to buy new ones on disc. Sony already has been selling digital for years.

Simply buy no more games. Everything you already have works the same as it did before.

I never understood this "sell a console later" concept, so I guess that is on me. But that also is not Sony's problem. They are under no obligation to keep a console worth anything, and frankly their business model would suggest its in their best interest to make you buy the next model anyways.

I think everything you are describing is why they never should have bought a console in the first place: you don't own the hardware. Sony already forces updates for new games and has the ability to kill the old games, whether you have the plastic disc or not. People never seemed to learn that this is normal for Sony. Don't buy their products.

I don't think most people know they are in salt. Or that they were built in 1977 and only designed to last about 25 years.

Or more importantly, and to what you said, they were designed for only about 6 draw downs. We are way past that. They were never meant to be used and filled over and over again.

Are people really not getting the "I'm tied up right now" joke? The gag (literally: as in whats covering her face) is a bit too much though.

That isn't a very common phrase anymore is it? They just took it to the extreme, and when coupled with the phrase that everyone used to use: joke.