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By Rebekah ValentinePublished July 11, 2026 |Comments (0)| © Christian Petersen

Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki has sold 225,000 shares of company stock worth $4.7 million, just days after PlayStation made the controversial announcement to end game disc production in 2028

The timing raised eyebrows immediately. Sony President and CEO Hiroki Totoki sold 225,000 shares of Sony stock on July 3, 2026 for approximately $4,729,500, at $21.02 per share. Per an SEC filing surfaced by Quiver Quantitative, the sale represented approximately 56.5% of his holdings in that class of stock, leaving him with 173,250 shares. On…

Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki has sold more than half of his stock in the company. A recent United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing shows that the 61-year-old sold millions of dollars worth of stock just two days after the announcement that PlayStation was going to cease production of physical discs in January 2028

A petition calling on Sony to reconsider its decision to end physical disc production of PlayStation games in January 2028 has reached 200,000 signatures, indicating a substantial number of PlayStation gamers urging Sony not to end production of physical PlayStation games

Barely a week ago, Sony announced that starting in 2028, PlayStation would ditch physical discs for an all-digital future. The response from gamers has been predictably negative. Many console owners love their physical collections, but instead of ending at strongly worded criticism, the response includes legal actions that involve powerful words such as “monopoly.”

Thousands of Sony PlayStation users are urging the company to reconsider its decision to phase out physical game discs by 2028

In today’s Tech Bytes, the future of Sony PlayStation games may be digital-only. Starting in two years, PlayStation games will reportedly be sold exclusively in digital format. However, a new report says Sony is telling PlayStation game developers and publishers that they will still be able to reorder disc versions of their games, as long…

The furor over Sony’s decision to stop producing physical PlayStation discs starting in 2028 is not slowing down

Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear and director of the recent Death Stranding series, is one of gaming’s most famous developers and one of the first to react publicly to the recent news that Sony will be killing off PlayStation game discs in 2028. He was speaking at the Il Cinema in Piazza film festival…