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

[Vodacixi]

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.

BraLod already adressed point 2. As for point 1, I never said dumping from physical was the only way. But it is an option even on recent hackable consoles (PS4, PS5 and Switch 1 can dump physical games). In a digital only future, this option disappears, leaving digital dumping as the only option. And the more we lean into a digital future, the more companies will increase the difficulty in which we can dump digital copies. Without physical, as I said, this will make it more difficult to preserve games.