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

[Norion]

Bizwas said:

Norion said:

I'd like to say that there's no way they're that foolish and out of touch to not expect a massive backlash over this but the original plan for the Xbox One already showed that there's truly no limit to how out of touch the suits can be over stuff like this so that is for sure a possibility. I don't have the numbers they do but it really seems like a high risk low reward business move to do this now instead of waiting another 5 years or so before stopping disc production.

Maybe in their calculations they were exactly expecting a huge backlash and that is why they wanted to give it a lot more time to settle down, so by the time the PS6 is being announced and forth to its release, all the outrage over the end of physical media would already have passed. But I would still question that, since you need the hardcore crowd for your PS6 (who else should be buying a 1000+ USD consol) and that is exactly who you are pissing off with this move. Plus that is exactly the crowd which is not forgiving and forgetting that easily...

Right cause of that I'd say that would be a miscalculation. Having it so the PS6 is digital only by default but has a disc drive accessory you can buy and making physical versions of their games more expensive than digital like Nintendo would encourage further digital adoption without royally pissing off a ton of hardcore Playstation fans.