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

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Zippy6 said:

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.

Neither of these are really correct.

Modern console games get dumped by the console getting hacked, once the console has been exploited it doesn't matter if the game is digital or physical they can be dumped. 

You can play digital games from other regions now, all you need to do is create a second account for that region. I used to buy digital games on different region PSN accounts to get cheaper prices. You can play the games on your original local account for achievements etc if the foreign account sets the console to primary.

Actually, even as people can and do make multiple regional accounts, I'm not sure it is actually allowed by Sony.

If it isn't, but they just currently don't care about it, but eventually do, if they get you buying games from different regions they could ban your account.

And what does a banned account means in an all digital future? You lose your entire library tied to it =D

People better not get hacked or not have other people fooling support chat and getting access to their accounts without ever even needing to hack them, both things that have happened and still happen, because they will lose all their games they already not own too. PSN is very secure as we all know... not.

It only gets better and better.