Sony Just Killed Discs: Physical Disc Production to End January 2028 for New Games Releasing on PlayStation Consoles

Just staggeringly anti-consumer. I guess this will be my last console generation then, I refuse to not have a disc drive and no second hand market

They know very well what they are doing. The market is saturated with good games, and they want to cut off the second hand market entirely. You cannot resell digital games.

I remember a certain PS4 promo of one Sony exec handing a game to another after after the reveal of the Xbox one. Competition is a good thing

And this will be me shifting to all PC gaming. If I must go digital only, I would rather give my money to Steam. Sony has proven itself not the most trustable with digital content (example the recent purge of movies people purchased)

No resale, no buy.

I am not a fan of discs (i can't even remember when i last used one tbh, must be decades), but i am a fan of conservation and transferable licences. This move creates a completely unpreservable generation of video games until the thing gets jailbroken to hell and back, which can take years - whatever games appear and disappear in that timeframe might be lost forever. Damn, at least you can resell Nintendos Game Keycards.

Sony just killed any reason for me to even consider consoles ever again. What, you've got 10 exclusives? Cool.

Xbox's Project Helix is doing the same.

If I'm digital only it'll just be PC. At least I have DRM free options.

Emulation is getting better each day, why not get a laptop that's pretty much a (portable) console on steroids? Or just flash SteamOS or something on your PlayStation if you're into that

Also a lot easier to borrow games from websites like Vimm's Lair/Internet Archive

Companies think and make decisions in this way all the time, against consumer planned obsolescence is a fundamental part of their philosophy. Usually it is in ways that are too technical or esoteric for the general user to follow but here they have forgot themselves and made a play that is obvious to a great many of their customers.

Remember when Sony released this: https://youtu.be/kWSIFh8ICaA

"Their sales plummeted and, just like that, they started selling physical discs again" (but it was too late as people's tastes and interests moved on).

Already posted before.

In an economy that viscerally sucks already, this is just another body blow.

Sony: “so maybe if we squeeze them harder, the next quarter will look good. It might kill us next year, but I can’t have an inconvenience now, butter to give up in a few months to look good now.”

Fuck it. Bring back cartridges. Megaman X is still fun.

I'm sort of okay with this. Discs are antiquated in 2026. They should at least throw us consumers a bone with a PlayStation that plays all legacy games.