The Shifting Sands of Ownership in Gaming The recent news from Sony about ceasing production of physical PlayStation games has sent shockwaves through the gaming community.
This move has sparked a renewed interest in the nostalgic era of plug and play consoles, but beneath this surface level nostalgia lies a more insidious trend: the erosion of ownership and control in the gaming industry.
For years, gamers have been warned that digital distribution models were eroding the concept of physical game ownership.