Brock Young

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[Stop Killing Games Official @StopKilingGames]

This is a grim moment for the gaming community. Sony PlayStation announced today that it will cease all physical games production in 2028. This will essentially erase legal game preservation and ownership on their platform.

The ESA lied to lawmakers to bring down the POG Act
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[DomTheBomb @DomTheBomb]

PlayStation Vs Xbox in 2026 summed up

[eXtas1s 🎮 Noticias & Rumores @eXtas1stv]

‼️ GOG RESPONDE A PLAYSTATION‼️

El debate sobre la propiedad digital está más vivo que nunca. Mientras Sony anuncia el fin de los discos físicos, GOG se planta firme y les responden en un comunicado:

💬 "Aunque un juego desaparezca de la tienda de GOG, nunca abandona tu biblioteca. Exactamente como debería ser la propiedad digital".

Dejando claro que comprar digital debería significar poseer, no rentar.

[Ndukauba @NdukaubaYT]

Y’all missed me with ALL of that…

[Ataberk Ateş @RedPhoenixTR]

They want to take your ownership rights, sell you £100 games, and then remove them later when their license expires.

They don’t want you to pass your digital library to your children or anyone. All stores have lines in their agreements to block you from transferring your account.

They don’t want you selling your second-hand games. Investors want more profit. They don’t want anything other than their algorithms to drive the price.

Never accept any of these. You and your children will regret it.

[Dantics @DanticsOfficial]

Sony has announced the end of physical discs.

I grew up in an era where buying a game was an event.

You'd walk into a game store, spend ages choosing, then rush home to open the case. Inside were beautifully made manuals filled with artwork, lore, maps, hints, secrets, and sometimes even demo discs for other games.

Owning a game actually felt like owning something.

I still remember discovering Mass Effect. I loved it so much that I passed my disc around to friends until they finally gave it a chance. Every one of them ended up buying their own copy. I still have that original disc today.

Now we're slowly being told that even the disc itself is optional.

This isn't just about plastic cases. It's about ownership, preservation, lending games to friends, collecting memories, and having something that still exists years later.

We lost the manuals.

Now we're losing the discs.

I don't think that's progress.

[MBG @xMBGx]

DO NOT FORGET THIS IS HOW SONY WON YOU OVER. DO NOT FORGET THIS IS WHAT THEY STOOD FIRM ON AND WHY WE CHEERED. @PlayStation @Sony

MAKE THEM REVERSE THEIR DECISION TO END PHYSICAL PLAYSTATION GAMES!

[Dustin Furman @DustinCanFly]

Yeah this totally sucks. They will eventually try to blame this decision on the handheld, but the reality is, they want you spending more money on games, with less consumer choice.

Don't take my word for it! Look at the prices of physical vs digital on PSN for older titles.

[Brandon✨ @ray_ray200108]

“I don’t understand why people are mad”

[Just Play it @JustPlayIt_]

🚨 🚨 متجر GAME يعلن دفاعه عن الألعاب الفيزيائية.

في بيان رسمي، أكدت GAME أنها لن تقف مكتوفة الأيدي أمام القرارات الأخيرة في صناعة الألعاب، والتي تهدد مستقبل النسخ الفيزيائية.

الشركة أوضحت أن الألعاب بالنسبة للكثير من اللاعبين ليست مجرد “ملف قابل للتحميل”، بل ذكريات، مجموعات، إصدارات خاصة، وتاريخ من صناعة الألعاب.

كما شددت GAME على أن اختفاء النسخ الفيزيائية يعني فقدان جزء مهم من حرية اللاعبين، مثل إمكانية إعارة اللعبة، إعادة بيعها، جمعها، الاحتفاظ بها، أو اختيار مكان وطريقة شرائها بعيدًا عن أي احتكار.

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

Sony, once upon a time, you represented the best gaming can ever be, and have long been living off the inherited glory of passionate creators, and now you single-handedly seek to unravel it🚀

✅You are destroying game preservation
✅Ending personal ownership
✅Destroying collector’s hobby/market
✅Sucking the passion out of gaming
✅Ruining chances for discoverability
✅Removing trading & 2nd hand market
✅Turning gaming into a life-support reliant industry on predatory subscription, draconian copyright laws and glorified rental service for the price of faux purchase

You represent the worst of the industry and plotting a terrible trajectory for the industry🎤

[MBG @xMBGx]

Final thought for today.

It's ironic that Sony choosing the disc (CD-ROM) for the PS1 is what gave them such a significant advantage over Nintendo and Sega at the time.

Nintendo was supposed to partner with Sony on the Nintendo PlayStation but backed out at the last moment. Sony still went ahead with a motivation to be successful without the with the PlayStation console.

Looking back at the history of PlayStation from PS1,2,3,4,5, psp and Vita, Physical games are part of PlayStation's DNA. It should always be that way as far as I'm concerned and it's pathetic to see them just look down upon it and discard it all in the name of saving a bit of money. They really don't care about "goodwill" when there is no competition keeping them in check.

#NOTBUYINGPS6 @Sony @PlayStation

[DomTheBomb @DomTheBomb]

New Xbox & PlayStation consoles will both be without disc drives 😭😭

[🌵 RC | The Nostalgia Pro🕹️📺 @NostalgiaPro]

Sony killing physical media is bigger than people realize.

Everyone's talking about what it does to the consumer. Look at what it does to small business.

No used games means no trade-ins, no reselling, no buying a copy for cheap a year later. That used wall is the margin that keeps your local game store's lights on, and it's gone.

In 2013 Sony mocked Xbox for trying to block used games. Now they're doing the exact thing they roasted.

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[Kamby @kambyyy]

"Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration"

[Loot Box Gaming @LootBoxGamingUS]

We saw how loud gamers got when it came to just one game (GTA VI) not receiving a physical release…

Now, physical PlayStation games are at threat entirely, with production discounting in January 2028.

How loud are PlayStation fans willing to become, in order to protect their right to own the products that they consume?

[Santa Decides @SantaDecides]

nvm

[animeheadsretroworld @animeheadsretro]

Sony's stupidity, short sightedness and arrogance on this matter is staggering in ways that I can barely get my head around.

You're seriously telling me that someone who makes these PR decisions thought it was a good idea to reveal this mere WEEKS after the publicity surrounding the court case against them over the fact they regularly charge £70 for a "digital licence" for a glorified game rental that they can revoke whenever they feel like it AND an actual real world example of this happening with 500 digital movie purchases being delisted/revoked.

They think they're bulletproof at this stage but this is gonna have massive financial implications for them. I have spoken to five people today of my Playstation collecting friends and have many more still to talk to. ALL of them have said this was the final nail in the coffin and they're dropping Playstation going forward. Some aren't even waiting until the cut off date for physical in Jan 2028.

Citing "consumer trends" is bullshit. It's price fixing. They want you to pay around £70 for a game you don't own so they can take it back. They don't want ownership of discs to be a thing anymore because they can't control pricing on it and can't resell it to you a few years later, simple as that.

Then there's the separate issue of them effectively telling us they don't give a damn about preservation either.

Xbox is moving away from consoles so they aren't gonna be an option anymore. We can still get SOME physical switch games where 100% of the game is on card but it kinda feels like in a world where digital is becoming pushed increasingly it's gonna be Steam who come out on top. At least they (along with GOG) have a contingency plan to guarantee you can play your library without online authentication.

I'm gonna finish off the gaps in my collections for franchises I've exclusively collected on Playstation and then I'm done. I'll probably go pre-owned just so they don't get any more of my money as well.

I guess I'm collecting retro and switch only physically from now on and waiting for Steam sales for everything else.

Think I'll spend my physical sony money going forward for games I WOULD have bought on PS5 on the Neo Geo AES Plus instead and some lovely physical games that can't be taken back 😎

1995 to 2026 was a good run but I guess the dream is dead.

Pictured: SOME of my PS4/5 collection (PS1-3 and PSP/Vita is elsewhere in the house) I'd envisaged this getting a LOT bigger than it's gonna get. Oh well.

#Playstation
#Sony
#PhysicalGames