It should be titled: "Playstation keeps reminding us why Playstation sucks."
Personal experience: I had a huge PS3 games collection, but PS4 came out and Sony no longer was interested in keeping PS3 going (except for re-released). I had no machine outside of used one, and because my library was massive it only gathered dust in shelf.
One day I finally sold it off which brought less than 10% of its purchase value. It barely covered cost of work that I put into cataloging and cleaning boxes. So I swore to never go physical drives.
Today with Steam (where I have 4 digit title count) I don't really care, it's probably easier to pass down my account than 2 containers worth of dusty drives. And even recently I played Braid that I bought almost 15 years ago.
I think it all boils down to the "slippery slope" argument. Sony and Nintendo showed multiple times - through remasters and re-releases - they don't give 2 cents about end-customer as long as they're happy and fed. But not every business is like that.
As far as I know Amazon also took some book of people's Kindles, but still (for many) convenience of not having to build your own library in a small metropolitan apartment.
Personal experience: I had a huge PS3 games collection, but PS4 came out and Sony no longer was interested in keeping PS3 going (except for re-released). I had no machine outside of used one, and because my library was massive it only gathered dust in shelf.
One day I finally sold it off which brought less than 10% of its purchase value. It barely covered cost of work that I put into cataloging and cleaning boxes. So I swore to never go physical drives.
Today with Steam (where I have 4 digit title count) I don't really care, it's probably easier to pass down my account than 2 containers worth of dusty drives. And even recently I played Braid that I bought almost 15 years ago.
I think it all boils down to the "slippery slope" argument. Sony and Nintendo showed multiple times - through remasters and re-releases - they don't give 2 cents about end-customer as long as they're happy and fed. But not every business is like that.
As far as I know Amazon also took some book of people's Kindles, but still (for many) convenience of not having to build your own library in a small metropolitan apartment.