ITS OVER Sony Interactive Entertainment to end physical game disc production in January 2028

[Pajderman]

Vodacixi said:

BTW, there's a couple of things I saw on Twitter that I hadn't previosuly considered:

1. By eliminating physical games and only leaving them available digitally on PS Store, it will increasingly become more difficult to dump and preserve said games.

2. You won't be able to play games not available on your region. Now you can import a physical copy of said game. In an all digital future, this will not be possible.

Yes! I think that there are several more implications regarding getting rid of physical media completely. 

I also think that there will be changes to the the digital games so that people who never even buy physical media will notice the difference. Region based pricing might ramp up, less incentives for developers to keep game-size low ect.