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In the long-standing disc vs digital debate, the Take-Two CEO has shared his thoughts, and they lean towards digital.

TL;DR: A study found many physical game discs require downloads to work: about half of 78 Xbox Series X titles needed patches, 34% of 792 PS5 games required fixes or missing content, and 75% of 48 Switch 2 games were fully playable offline. Disc ownership, resale, and preservation are thus increasingly uncertain. Voice: Hassam NasirSpeed…

When Sony announced last month that they were transitioning to a disc-less gaming future with PlayStation consoles, some gamers might have thought that this meant a lot more gamers would be moving to PC, given that, at the very least, players can choose which digital storefront to buy their games from instead of being monopolized…

Tampa, Fla. — Walking into a video game store is something Isaiah Chavez hopes he’ll always be able to do.

Fla. -Video game enthusiasts in Pinellas Park are expressing frustration as Sony prepares to phase out physical PlayStation discs in January 2028

Xbox experienced a strange outage earlier this week. Not only were the platform’s online services unavailable for almost an entire day, but even games on physical discs stopped working for some players. The company’s technology chief, Scott Van Vliet, explained that the outage was caused by problems at an external licensing service. And if your…

Many gamers have been lamenting Sony’s recently announced decision to halt sales of physical game discs in 2028. However, new data revealed by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella highlights how years of stark economic trends helped lead Sony to that decision.

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Case in point: Grand Theft Auto 6 is slated to be released later this year, and it made $260 MILLION dollars during the first week of pre-orders. Some analysts estimate that the game could rake in about 5 BILLION dollars during its launch week

Sony spent nearly three decades building PlayStation into the console that always had a disc drive. That changes in January 2028. On July 1, 2026, the company confirmed on the PlayStation Blog that it will stop manufacturing physical discs for new PlayStation games, shifting the platform to digital-only distribution at retail and on the PlayStation…