re: Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation

Older games also now go to their subscription service too where you can play them as part of your PS Plus sub. That's the more modern way than waiting for a huge sale several years down the road. It will be playable through your sub way sooner than that for no cost if you already have PS Plus. Just look at the game list included, it's massive and pretty much all their major first party titles are on there.

They also keep raising the pricing on PS Plus and this is definitely a large reason why especially when they did a price hike right before announcing the all digital move.

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This is a world class screw up from Sony. The XBOX layoffs didn't change the news cycle for them at all.

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It doesn't matter. What are people going to do, stop buying video games?

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I think the general consensus is there's no benefit to buying consoles if they move away from physical media. PCs have competitive marketplaces for this.

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Sony and Microsoft have already done the math. People aren't buying physical copies.

What will hurt console gaming more is the price of the hardware, but PC gaming has the same issue right now (if not moreso).

The only thing needing to be addressed is how awful Mario Wonder was and how long it’s been since they released an actual new 3D Mario game. Nintendo is the last company that needs to talk shite when they are still selling games from the lates 2010s at full price

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What will hurt console gaming more is the price of the hardware, but PC gaming has the same issue right now (if not moreso).

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PC has the benefit of secondary markets for parts. And with games allowing people to turn down settings, use upscalers, and frame gen tech like lossless scaling, even shitboxes can get surprisingly decent performance.

As I said before, a tiny vocal minority on social media has no actual value IRL where no one buys physical. It just doesn't matter, the sales are the sales. If the 10-15% left that buy physical are mad, boohoo, they care about the 80%+ that don't.

It's the same thing with any tech that gets phased out. Like when smartphones started removing the aux port and SD card slots because the future was wireless and larger internal storage.

Social media isn't real life.

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Nintendo implied they noticed with this tweet, so we may be looking at a future where Nintendo becomes the gaming leader again...ironically due to Sony.

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How many Switch 2 games are just a code in a box? I don't know about first party but a frick ton of third party games are

007 First Light
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Bluey’s Happy Snaps
Borderlands 4
Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster
Brigandine Abyss [non game-key card version (full game on cartridge) available here]
Call of the Elder Gods
Cronos: The New Dawn
Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion [Japan-only, full game on cartridge in the west]
Destroy All Humans
Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed
Digimon Story: Time Stranger
Disgaea 7 Complete
Disgaea Mayhem
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake
Dragon Quest 11 S
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World
Dynasty Warriors Origins
EA Sports FC 26
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition
Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
Farming Simulator: Signature Edition
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade
Final Fantasy Resonance
Full Metal Schoolgirl [currently digital-only in the west]
Gobble [game only announced for Japan]
Goodnight Universe
Gothic 3 Classic
Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok
Hasbro Games Junior Collection
Hello Kitty Party Land
High On Life 2
Hitman: World of Assassination – Signature Edition
Hogwarts Legacy
Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush
Kingdom Hearts Collection [1-3]
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Little Nightmares 3
Madden NFL 26
Madden NFL 27
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2
Minecraft Dungeons 2
Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
My Hero Academia: One’s Justice
NBA 2K26
Nickelodeon & The Dice of Destiny
Nogunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition
No Sleep For Kaname Date – From AI: The Somnium Files
Octopath Traveler 0
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac
Persona 3 Reload
PGA Tour 2K25
Pragmata
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
Rayman Legends Retold
Resident Evil Requiem
Shine Post: Be Your Idol [game only available in Japan]
Shnobi: Art of Vengeance
SnowRunner
Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition
Sonic x Shadow Generations
SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide
Squirrel With a Gun
Star Wars Outlaws
Starbites [cancelled]
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War
Street Fighter 6
Suikoden 1 & 2 HD Remaster
Survival Kids
Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn Edition
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon
The Rogue Prince of Persia
The Witch’s Bakery
Village in the Shade
Wild Hearts S
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties
Ys X: Proud Nordics


Just one or two. FYI they aren't a code in the box, i think there's still a game cart, it just has a code in it that downloads. Lots of idiots out there probably think it's an actual game.

I'm the same. I get the issue and hope they bring the decision back a bit, but I bought the PS5 with the disc drive just to have the option available, and have barely used it. I still have a disc copy of AC Origins, and I played it some recently. Every time the disc drive kicks on, my wife looks up from what she's doing "what in the world is that?"

It’s more about market pressure driving down prices which physical and used games do.

I but almost all my games digital but i will buy physical releases for my fave franchises like FF, RE, etc but still want physical media for those economic pressure reasons

I simply don’t want to be trapped inside Sonys walled garden. You will never see sells again.

Also they’re lying about the digital:physical ratio of their sales

The insomniac leak a while back clearly stated 45% of all games bought for PlayStation meaning 1st and 3rd party were physical

That’s been a few years so I’m sure it’s dropped so let’s be generous and say it’s 33.5%

Sonys bet is these people will just give in and go digital and the ones that don’t will be more than made up for in their new better margins and monopoly of a walled off system

Again I have been a Sony fan my entire life but frick them

frick Xbox too for being sooo awful Sony feels they have to market dominance to pull this off