On the occasion of the 2026 Tokyo Game Show, Since ex-PlayStation They met at the Sony booth and created a historical-flavored skit recreating the famous video Instructions on how to share your PS4 gameonly in this case They discovered they didn’t have a CD.
Back in 2013, at the height of the controversy over Microsoft’s original vision of the Xbox One as a console with invasive DRM features, Sony made ownership of the game somewhat complicated with an online control system (later withdrawn entirely). The official sketch that made history.
Among these, Shuhei Yoshida and Adam BoyceAt that time, senior executives within Sony stood side by side and explained “How to Share PS4 Games”and essentially passing it from one to the other, in an obvious attempt to tease the complexity that Microsoft seems to want to introduce on the Xbox One.
completely different situation
Thirteen years later, things have certainly changed, and they’re still the same now Sony will follow this philosophy Microsoft’s initial announcement caused a stir at the time, with Microsoft intending to abandon physical media in 2028 and running into the same issues associated with the concept of possession in video games.
The skit Yoshida and Boyce improvised in front of various visitors during Tokyo Game Show 2026 fits it all: the two stand in the same pose as in the 2013 video, as if Video games are being passed around, but they don’t have anything in their hands.
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It’s unclear whether the pair’s intention was actually to mock Sony’s new policy of bidding farewell to physical media, or it’s possible they were just trying to revive an already famous meme in an off-the-cuff way.
However, there appeared a obviously sarcastic retellingas it very effectively symbolizes what gamers will face when Sony abandons physical media in 2028, and posts with the photo have apparently started circulating online with great success.