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

[Cerebralbore101]

twintail said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

I'm the one that dropped Jason's video here, where he explains all this. 

Digital-Only games and Limited Releases shouldn't be included in a statement about consumer preferences because these two often aren't a matter of choice. It's only a choice to choose between physical and digital when both are readily available. 

A lot of Capcom games like fighting games and Monster Hunter are more live-service than traditional videogames. So buying them physically is pretty pointless unless you wait for the Super Ultra Turbo SF6 Edition released in 2030. Things like CoD, MMOs, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, etc. will naturally have lower physical sales numbers because of the excessive updates and patches. Animal Crossing for example is a completely different game after all the free updates and paid DLC. 

Remember when we got Goty editions that were fully on disk? Pepperidge farm remembers! 

Whether digital only games and limited physical media was included as an underlying reason for the statement is impossible to know, right?

This is very much you reading more into the statement than was actually presented. All Sony said was that there was a general preference for digital over physical discs, a general preference which you appear to prove by trying to 'but this is different' Capcom's high digital to physical ratio. 

You seem to think that Sony's financials are the only data Sony has to make this decision, which is quite absurd.

If you really think Sony is lying about there being a preference for digital media, then where's the most up-to-date data to support this?

Sony's 2025 financials statement literally says that it includes all game sales. Not that hard to realize they are counting digital-only and limited release titles. 

Sony, like Microsoft will only release data that makes them look good. At least for now. MS constantly said that Gamepass was profitable. But now Sharma has said that they lost 64 cents for every dollar invested during their aquisition spree. This is after 7 years of claiming that Gamepass was profitable mind you. Corporations stretch the truth all the time in order to tell whatever narrative they want. z

Another example of how corporations can stretch the truth: MS renamed XBoxLive to GamepassCore. This is so they can claim that there are more Game Pass users than there are. People subbing to basic XBL for Online and people subbing to Gamepass are two different things. But MS wants to treat them as the same thing because it looks better on a spreadsheet. Sony is doing the same thing when it comes to digital vs physical preferences for consumers. 

Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 09 July 2026