While completely ignoring the fact that there is at least competition on pc and therefore more likely to get the games for significantly cheaper. No online costs. And at least 2 of the PC storefronts have never given us a reason to fear losing our library that we paid for. And if they ever did enshitify and steal our digital games from us, we could easily sail the seas and recover our games.

...where you can pirate every single one of Sony's games. And emulate not ported ones. Pirated too, of course. Pirate and seed even if you have no intention of playing.

The people who have an issue with Sony's business practices are already not buying their products, like me for instance.

They've already decided that they don't want you as a customer. It's like telling your boss, "You can't fire me; I quit."

It is better for many people. It all depends on what you prefer. I personally prefer having a full digital library that I can share via home console sharing, that I can access at any time from any Internet connected console at any time, that I don’t have to worry about my kids damaging or losing my disks, and that I can just buy and play at any time of day. I’m middle aged with kids, I’m not loaning games to friends or trading games in.

It costs more of my time to drive to the shops to buy a game than I’d save over buying digital, and as you get older you understand that time is the most important thing you have.

The last thing I need is more crap around the house. I vastly prefer digital, as long as I get the files and can do anything I want with them.

I am opposed to DRM, but digital itself is far preferable. When I travel knowing I can grab any game I want from my server (before or even after I arrive) and play it on any device I want is far superior to having to carry around physical items that only work with one device - a device I also would have to bring with me.

The problem is people already gave in when they choose a system that is useless for anything except one specific purpose and one specific game format.

Your last sentence fits perfectly about their hardware.

I'm going to fight this by purchasing digital games on steam. That'll show 'em.

But seriously, this isn't an attack from Sony, it's a reaction. People are trending towards digital purchases on all platforms. If the PlayStation is irrelevant without physical games then they will die by their own sword. Prior to this plenty of people were denigrating consoles as overpriced locked down computers anyway, this hardly makes a difference.

Regulatory policy to force a company to make a product?