Kojima Upset by Sony's Disk Rejection and Expresses Concerns About Cloud Gaming
Streaming services only provide access to data. Kojima fears that one day this access could be cut off, leaving people without content.
In July, Sony announced it would stop producing PlayStation game discs. Soon after, gamers recalled a post by Hideo Kojima. At the time, he shared his concerns on social media that with the transition to "digital," data would no longer be owned by people, and in the event of any global changes, their access to content could be suddenly revoked.
Kojima recently attended the Italian film festival Il Cinema in Piazza and, during a Q&A session, spoke on the topic again. He is upset that game discs are ceasing production:
As someone who grew up with physical media, I find this very sad. Lately, I've been actively buying Blu-ray discs of movies and music CDs. The situation with games is a bit different: they are installed on a hard drive, which means the game data remains on your own device. However, if everything transitions to streaming in the future, this will no longer be the case.
Kojima explained that with streaming subscription services, such as Amazon or Netflix, a person does not receive data on their device; they are only granted temporary access to it:
There's a server somewhere, and essentially, you just get the right to "open the tap," and when you do, data starts flowing. That's how watching movies on these platforms works: you don't download the data, you access it directly via subscription. And ultimately, you don't actually own that data.
Hideo Kojima fears that the companies owning the servers, which currently allow "opening the tap" for data access, might one day cut it off themselves, and people will lose content:
There are companies that own these servers and allow you to "open the tap" for a monthly fee. However, given politics and various viewpoints, it cannot be ruled out that if the situation changes, data distribution could cease. And if that happens, you won't be able to watch your favorite movies or play video games. That's what's truly frightening. What happens to video games in 2028 could also happen to movies. I would like everyone to think about this.
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