An indie developer has stated their pleasure at launching a sport on PS5 was damped by anti-Sony feedback showing underneath its launch trailer.
New Zealand studio Eat Pant Video games has launched Teeto, a 3D platformer a few blob and a bunny who need to cease a shadowy corruption from spreading internationally.
A launch trailer for the sport was posted on the official PlayStation YouTube account, as typically occurs when new video games arrive on the platform.
The studio has famous on Bluesky, nonetheless, that after being excited to see the trailer had acquired greater than 400 feedback, they shortly realised they have been nearly all associated to Sony‘s latest announcement that it’s going to not be releasing video games on disc from January 2028.
“Omg! our sport simply launched and PlayStation posted our launch trailer!” the studio’s message wrote. “400 feedback whaaaaaat! I’m wondering what individuals consider our sport? Oh… oh no.”
On the time of writing the video has 405 feedback, with examples together with “don’t allow them to destroy our future”, “we is not going to be silent – preserve discs alive” and “we need to personal our bodily video games”.
The trailer has additionally acquired a lot of downvotes. Though downvotes are not seen on YouTube with out using browser extensions, gamers have nonetheless been downvoting it anyway – the trailer presently has 950 downvotes, versus simply 259 upvotes.
Each new trailer is affected
Teeto’s trailer is way from the one one affected by this. Virtually each video uploaded onto the official PlayStation YouTube channel in latest days – together with trailers for Mai: Little one of Ages, The place Winds Meet, Moss: The Forgotten Relic, Farming Camp and The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu – all have considerably extra downvotes than upvotes, and feedback sections nearly totally full of individuals asking for discs.
Even big-budget and critically acclaimed titles are being affected. A brand new Spider-Man trailer for Marvel Tokon: Combating Souls has 5,100 downvotes versus 1,700 upvotes and greater than 1,100 feedback principally speaking about Sony’s resolution.
One other new trailer, for the Kortz Middle Heist content material in GTA On-line, has acquired 3,100 downvotes and 675 upvotes, with greater than 1,200 feedback together with “now we want a heist to get the bodily discs from Sony’s headquarters”.
A launch trailer for the newly launched Denshattack, which presently has a Metacritic rating of 88, additionally has 1,300 downvotes and 453 upvotes, together with round 450 feedback together with “protect this sport with a bodily disc launch” and “cool sport, I nonetheless need a bodily disc”.
A petition on Change.org to get Sony to reverse its resolution presently has greater than 320,000 signatures, however it seems unlikely that it’s going to have any affect, as the corporate’s largest manufacturing web site in Austria is already getting ready to maneuver away from manufacturing discs.
Sony has has invested round €30 million in new tools designed for making optical microlenses on the web site as an alternative, and has already began coaching its employees to work on it.
