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

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G2ThaUNiT said:

Part of me wonders if Sony is intentionally scaling back physical production already to help skew physical sales numbers to help justify the bandaid pull. Market analysts like Piscatella can only get numbers provided sold by retailers. Requiem was somehow sold out of physical copies, and I'm like....how???? Expedition 33, a lot more understandable how often it was sold out due to a smaller publisher not knowing what demand would be like, but Capcom??? Surely they would be aware.

Complete conspiracy theory kind of thinking on my part, but it makes you wonder, considering physical games still do sell. Especially for Sony's first-party games in particular.

That wouldn't surprise me. I don't buy physical game anymore, but I've heard it can be really hard to find physical copies of a lot of games. Physical should remain an option for those interested even if it is in more limited quantities. Sony could just sell physical games for $10 or $20 more to make up the difference. 

You can still buy music on CDs and vinyl, and movies/tv shows on blu-rays / DVDs. Even if those sales are tiny compared to what they were decades ago.

PS6/Helix should have a disc-drive add-on as an option for those that still want to use physical games. Even if it is separate device and plugs into them like the HD-DVD drive for the X360. They could even be sold at a decent profit.