This summer, Sony announced its abandonment of physical PlayStation game discs. This caused a huge wave of discontent on social media. In August, some proactive users organized the “PS Blackout” boycott.
Initially, PS Blackout was conceived as a week-long initiative. At the time, the authors of the “boycott” were criticized – they were told that if a specific end date was set, it wouldn't be a boycott at all. After this, PS Blackout was reformatted: it began to be positioned as an indefinite boycott.
According to the plan, PS Blackout participants should not buy games or subscriptions in the Sony store, not use PlayStation services, and not play on the console (or do so in offline mode so as not to be reflected in statistics).
Several weeks have passed since the boycott began, and players were very interested to know the consequences of PS Blackout. Judging by the incoming information, there is no reason for joy yet.
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella stated on social media that, according to their data, “no significant changes in either the number of players or their engagement levels have been observed.”
GTA VI is expected to be released in November, so there is every reason to believe that these player activity metrics will significantly increase by the end of the year.