PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries
arstechnica.com
The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.

PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.::The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.

  • DontMakeItTim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    11 months ago

    Maybe I am underestimating the amount of people buying seasons of TV shows on PlayStation, but this seems like a lot of PR pain for very little potential upside.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      11 months ago

      I’m just surprised there are over 1,000 seasons of shows on discovery Channel… once you get past the gold mining, crab fishing, Mythbusting and sending people out into the wilderness naked, what’s left?

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      I think WB is counting on people blaming Sony even though it seems like WB is the one who decided not to play nice.

    • vitamin@infosec.pubEnglish
      55·
      11 months ago

      It says 1,318 seasons, so that’s like 100 people buying thirteen seasons of Shark Pilots or Junkstore Wars or whatever. So, you’re definitely right it’s bad PR over almost nothing, but I think Discovery should be taking the heat, not Sony. They made the call to cancel those licenses.

      • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        Um, what? You think removing 1,318 seasons of shows only affects 100 users? They’ve been selling these since the PS3 era and it’s hundreds of millions of devices.

        …did you possibly think it meant 1,318 total purchases? 😂

        • vitamin@infosec.pubEnglish
          14·
          11 months ago

          It says it right there in the title. They sold seasons, that is how many they sold. Do you think Discovery has 1,318 total shows?

          • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            1,318 seasons means 1,318 seasons, not 1,318 total sales. Click on the notice in the article for a list of all the seasons of different shows if you still don’t understand.

            Each season could have been bought by 100 people, or by 1,000 people. Seasons of popular shows like Mythbusters might have been bought by millions of people. We have no idea how many customers are affected since it doesn’t list that information.

            Bro your reading comprehension is something else.