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There’s no ignoring the outcry on social media right now surrounding the looming all-digital future. With Sony announcing that they’re cutting physical discs from 2028, and the news that Project Helix, XBOX’s next console, won’t have a disc drive, there’s a real fear amongst the gaming community that ownership of games could become a thing…

The video game disc is dead, and Sony’s been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony’s discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzburg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But…

Sony is reportedly battling a UK lawsuit said to be worth almost $2.7 billion, one alleging the PlayStation maker’s “monopoly position” has inflated prices for digital games reports Reuters

So, that’s it then. As of 2028, game discs will be a thing of the past for PlayStation. And after previously attempting to do so five years ago — before a backlash prompted it to reverse course — Sony is finally shuttering the digital storefronts on PS3 and PlayStation Vita. It doesn’t seem like the…

Sony executives respond to a question about how the PlayStation brand can recapture players who migrated to PC gaming during the global pandemic

Reading between the lines, Sony’s decision to move to an all-digital future for PlayStation was always in plain sight

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PlayStation fans are furious after reports claim that Sony is blocking the PC release of Marvel Tokon in 132 countries. Like Helldivers 2, Sony may be region-locking the Marvel fighting game due to PSN account requirements

Citing “consumer preferences” and the broader entertainment industry’s shift away from physical discs to digital, Sony has announced that it will no longer release physical games on PlayStation consoles beginning January 2028. Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and through retailers that will sell digital formats only

Sony has drawn a line under three decades of PlayStation history. On July 1, 2026, the company confirmed that it will stop producing PlayStation physical games on disc for all new titles beginning in January 2028 — a decision that pushes the platform firmly toward a digital-only future. After that date, new PlayStation games will…