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

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Tober said:

curl-6 said:

It's US dollars, and it's total revenue, not net profit; in spite of some of their missteps this gen, Sony are not at all hurting for cash so this move to kill discs is not something they're being squeezed into doing.

It just is not last year, but Life to Date revenue for the PS5 (since 2020).

Also let's not forget a lot of the revenue increase comes from increasingly selling 3rth party digitally. Sony accounts the full sticker price amount as 'revenue' (minus VAT where applicable), then have the 3rth party portion accounted as 'cost of goods sold'. Just like a brick and morter store would do.

(e.g. Nintendo only accounts their portion (like a delivery charge) as 'revenue' for 3rth party in their e-shop, like a delivery service would do. Just like Google/Apple)

I said "as of last year", not just last year.

And yes, digital sales lead to higher revenue, which is why they want to kill physical discs. But they're hardly being pressed into it, their business was already thriving.