\u201cSince production is ending in 2028, this is about video games, but I grew up with physical media, so I find it really sad,\u201d he said. \u201cCurrently, I\u2019ve been buying up a lot of Blu-rays, such as various movies, and CDs too.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation is different for games [than movies], as they are downloaded to the hard drive, that means the game data remains on your own hardware. However, if things shift to streaming in the future, that won\u2019t be the case anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cWith streaming subscription services, like Netflix<\/a> or Amazon<\/a>, there is a server somewhere, and you essentially just have the right to turn the tap, and when you do, the data flows out.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s how movies work on these platforms, right? You don\u2019t download the data, you access it directly through a subscription. And the consequence of that is that you don\u2019t actually possess the data yourself.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are companies that own these servers and let you \u2018turn the tap\u2019 for a monthly fee. However, with nations, politics and various ways of thinking, one naturally has to consider the possibility that if there is a change, the data inside will stop being distributed. And if that happens you won\u2019t be able to watch or play the movies and games you like.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is what is frightening. So, what is happening to video games in 2028, might also happen to movies. I\u2019d like everyone to keep that in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n Kojima is worried consumers could lose their games Kojima\u2019s comments echo a 2021 tweet<\/a> that has been recirculated this week, in which he wrote that he was worried about access to people\u2019s content libraries being cut off in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cEventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not be able to freely access the movies, books, and music that we have loved. I would be a have-not. That\u2019s what I\u2019m afraid of. This is not greed.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this week,\u00a0Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/a>\u00a0announced to the public that it\u00a0will stop manufacturing physical game discs from January 2028<\/a>. However, it\u2019s since emerged that the company has told partners they will be able to reprint discs for games released before this point<\/a>.<\/p>\n It also told partners that it will \u201cprovide publishers with the opportunity to release new games at retail using digital codes,\u201d with more details to come. Potentially, this could come in the form of download codes in game boxes, like\u00a0GTA 6\u2019s upcoming physical version<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima has reacted to the news that PlayStation will soon discontinue disc games, telling an audience that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n