this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
282 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
87748 readers
3557 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
They will if they pirate them. Which is really the only logical way to handle this shit that the console makers are doing.
Does the introduction of media that's downloaded from the internet and locked to a single proprietary device present extra issues here?
I presume this will drive a lot of people away from the platform entirely, but it must be a massive headache for game preservationists
might be a problem if its solely an ONLINE game, or most of the content is online only.