REPORT: PlayStation is claimed to be considering delaying their digital-only future because XBOX is willing to go physical next generation🚀
✅Microsoft is allegedly telling publishers its next console, Project Helix will be entirely physical and will allow users to convert physical games into digital copies.
✅Sony reportedly realized that forcing a digital-only approach leaves a massive opening for competitors to capitalize on consumer demand for physical games.
✅A major unnamed game publisher (confirmed not to be Rockstar) reportedly threatened to skip PlayStation and release their massive upcoming title only on XBOX and Nintendo if Sony couldn't guarantee a physical release.
Source: Rumors gathered from Gamescom show floor, shared through Eurogamer Spain podcast via @MPFirst
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Sony’s lawyers are arguing that it should already be obvious that PlayStation digital games aren’t actually owned by the people who buy them.
In the lawsuit, Sony points to its Software Product Licensing Agreement, which says: “The Software is licensed to you, not sold.”
Sony also makes a more unusual argument: if a customer actually owned a digital game, another person wouldn’t be able to buy the same copy.
They use Resident Evil Requiem as an example. One customer bought the game on February 14, 2026, and another bought it on February 25 for $69.99.
Sony’s argument is basically: if the first customer actually owned the digital game, how could Sony sell the same game to someone else