Sony's decision to stop selling physical disks for its games makes a certain kind of sense from a mercilessly realist point of view—I'd be a hypocrite if I, a person with the majority of my games on one platform (Steam), shook my fist and wept for the end of physical media.
But aside from the sentimental concerns—which, honestly, I don't hold as any less important, there's more to life than money—there is a capitalist argument against the move, too, for both the consumer and the people who make videogames. If Sony ends physical disk sales, Sony decides how much a game on the PlayStation costs, forever.
Such is the argument of one Dutch consumer group that's currently suing Sony for their proposed changes, stating last month that "no discs means no second-hand market and no alte...
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