Sony recently announced that they are planning on going digital only for the PlayStation platform and there were a lot of negative reactions to this. I would assume that those who oppose this move are PlayStation loyalists who have never played games on digital forward platforms like the Personal Computer because for me, at least, I thought this was a good announcement, with some reservations. For someone like me, it's all about access, not the delivery. And for someone who has moved places many times in a short period of time, I wish all of my games are in digital format because I am tired of hauling tons and tons of these things with me. When it comes to digital rights management of their gaming content, Sony has been a dependable publisher. I have heard about them cutting off access to movies purchased on the PlayStation platforms before, and that is problematic - of course, this should not occur. The more blatant problem with digital purchases on consoles is the fact that console gaming has abandoned backwards compatibility, which complicates things due to the conflict of access and playability - this has never been a factor in PC gaming. Still, Sony has always allowed us to redownload anything that we have purchased in the past so things are looking up perhaps?
