PlayStation Blackout won't matter — and the reasons are as obvious as the physical media you never owned
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Consumer protest has limited leverage once a platform has already shifted its economics to digital. If you build on closed ecosystems, assume content ownership and access rules can change faster than user norms and price that risk into your roadmap.
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