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

[Cerebralbore101]

trunkswd said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

The petition to keep physical discs alive now has over 130,000 signatures! https://www.change.org/p/don-t-kill-the-disc-tell-sony-to-keep-physical-playstation-games?pubDate=20260702

Dark Souls only needed 100,000 signatures to get a PC port and after that tens of millions of PC gamers were able to enjoy the series. If Sony just allows physical PS5 discs until 2033 then that will result in tens of millions of gamers getting to buy physical copies. People should be able to play a game however they like as long as they are a full paying customer. Sony would be stupid to ignore this petition because even 50,000 people no longer buying games on PS5 because of this would result in millions in losses.

I could be wrong, but I don't see Sony walking this back. At least not entirely. The best I see is them continuing physical for PS5 another year or 2, while PS6 is 100% digital. 

Even that would be a massive win. I don't care about PS6. It's almost guaranteed to be a flop. I just want to enjoy the PS5's retirement years with lots of late-gen releases that are on a physical disc.