The video game disc is dead, and Sony’s been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony’s discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzburg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But […]
Physical games are dead thanks to Sony, and the future of gaming doesn’t look bright at all, with the absence of game ownership.
Sony is shutting down PSN for PS3 consoles next year, so preservationists are being asked to wake up from their slumber to archive everything before it’s too late.
Sony is shutting down PSN for PS3 consoles next year, so preservationists are being asked to wake up from their slumber to archive everything before it’s too late.
Sony’s reported 2028 PS5 disc cutoff would push PlayStation deeper into digital licensing, leaving preservation advocates to deal with the mess the industry still hasn’t properly solved.
Cody Spencer, the co-owner of the small games retail chain Pink Gorilla Games, put it well when I asked about the impact of Sony’s recent announcement that it will stop making discs for new games starting January 2028. “It’s sad to see. This decision is only a negative for gamers. We’re losing the ability to […]
Video game retailers could be in big trouble, with Sony eliminating physical copies from 2028, and the reaction online is fierce.
We look back on more than three decades of physical PlayStation releases.
The future of video game preservation just took a major hit. This morning, Sony announced that, starting in January 2028, the company will no longer produce physical PlayStation discs, which means that from that moment on you can only purchase new PS5 games digitally. At the same time, Sony also announced that it’s going to […]
Sony will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games beginning in 2028, as the company embraces an all-digital future.