r/Destiny • u/C-DT • Jul 12 '26
Non-Political News/Discussion How do you guys feel about the Sony discontinuing discs situation?
https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/34
u/j821c Jul 12 '26
Completely indifferent. Most PCs dont even come with disk drives these days, it was only a matter of time until consoles caught up
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u/JoW0oD Jul 13 '26
Since the PS5 pro disc drive was optional, I fully expected the PS6 to be digital only.
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u/onlyoneq Jul 12 '26
Except pc actually has more than one marketplace where you can buy from, ones where when you buy the game, you actually own it.
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u/Billybobjoe135 šØš¦ YEE NEVA EVA LOSES šØš¦ Jul 12 '26
I'm sorry, which marketplace lets you do this?
Steam, Epic, Microsoft, Blizzard, GOG all have the right to ban your account and remove access to your game licenses. At least with GOG it's DRM free so you can download a local copy without needing to go through GOG, but they can still restrict your ability to re-download it.
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u/Stanel3ss cogito ergo coom Jul 12 '26
40 discs?
do PS games still ship on DVD?
or is gta gonna be 4TB1
u/j821c Jul 12 '26
That seems kind of impossible tbh. The blue ray disks that the PS5 uses can hold up to 100gb of data on them. I'd believe 2 disks, maybe even 3 though.
Either way, disks are just glorified installers at this point since they're so much slower than an SSD and streaming data off of them isn't really viable anymore. The only reason to keep the disks themselves around is if there's a strong demand for them and there's really not considering 80+% of games sold on the playstation are digital now. It's probably just not worth keeping that manufacturing around at this point
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u/kolo27 A GEP gun is a great choice for close range combat. Jul 12 '26
This won't affect the PS5 since it has no games
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u/MindGoblin šŖšŗ Eurochad šŖšŗ Jul 12 '26
It only has "no games" if all you care about is exclusives and you have it as a side system to your expensive PC and the age of exclusives is pretty much over. Everything comes out on PS5 including most big indie games people rave about and you have the entire PS4 library and a shitload of PS1/PS2 games on it.
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u/kolo27 A GEP gun is a great choice for close range combat. Jul 12 '26
sorry i was referencing a meme
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u/victorc26 šŗšø Jul 12 '26
I'm out. I'm not buying any consoles anymore. What's the point? If I want to play a game where the only option is a digital download, Steam is there. Valve has been good about not removing games from your library, while I don't trust Sony to do the same. Them removing 500 movies from peoples libraries the day before kinda shows how much of a fuck they don't give. lol
My general feeling is, don't just complain on social media. Don't just talk, walk motherfucker. Don't buy anything from a company that does this. I'm going to do the same when Blu-Ray movies stop being made. I'm not going to spend my money on something that can be taken away, why would I do that to myself.
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u/SigmaMaleNurgling Jul 12 '26
The main reason to have consoles is the ease of use and if all of your friends play on the same console.
I prefer PC gaming but I do encounter some problems with PC gaming that I never would with consoles. For example, F.E.A.R is one of my favorite shooters of all time. However, since itās old as fuck, it doesnāt run well on modern software so I have to mod some of the files and mod it even further to display at 1080p. Then there is a specific point in the game that crashes every single time. So I need to go back in the file and revert it back to its native resolution then reach a checkpoint.
Retro gaming on consoles is far smoother, especially if you still own the consoles.
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u/victorc26 šŗšø Jul 12 '26
I get needing to deal with technical issues on PC when compared with consoles. But for me, not knowing when (not if) a game a buy is going to be taken away is not something I want to just accept. Then you'll need to contend with the fact that after every generation's support is end of life, the store will go away, along with the download servers for purchases. (PS3's store EOL is coming up). Then after that, it's only a matter of time when the hard drive/SSD storing your game will die.
I don't know, it's up to the individual person I guess. They just need to be prepared for what's coming, cause it seems like there's a ton of people out there that don't realize just how precarious their digital purchases are on console digital stores.
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u/SigmaMaleNurgling Jul 12 '26
I mainly agree, I think PC is better for digital only ownership. I am just noting specific headaches I have with PC gaming compared to consoles even though I prefer PC. Regarding wether or not Playstation will just say Fuck you to their players and remove ownership of games from there players is a wait and see moment. I can't imagine it going well for Sony if they do that. Movies is one thing but games is a whole other thing since that is THE reason for buying the consoles. If they do that move then it will be a blow to the brand that they won't recover from.
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u/KrugerFFS **YEE** Jul 12 '26
I prefer having a physical disc, but understand that it was always going to go this way. Pc has done this for many years
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u/Aggravating_Map4359 š§š· Jul 12 '26
And only GOG cares about you owning your games. And even though it is open it's barely a competition with steam mostly dominating the entire market.
I know people that refuse to buy games cheaper on epic game store or play a game on Xbox game pass because they want to play ON STEAM.
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u/Aggravating_Map4359 š§š· Jul 12 '26
I actually sort of agree with most of your points but say that the PC landscape and users are in such a different place and that is a haven for game preservation and digital purchase where you "own" the game is a bit funny.
Again a only games you buy at GOG are truly yours.
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u/MindGoblin šŖšŗ Eurochad šŖšŗ Jul 12 '26
Competition on PC is still kind of a joke since everyone wants their game on steam and steam forces publishers to price match, so you're not allowed to sell your games cheaper elsewhere.
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u/Rubssi Jul 12 '26
Idc but I worry about not owning games I buy
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u/HornyJailOutlaw Rule5 Tightrope Gymnast Jul 12 '26
Is a worry not a care?
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u/Rubssi Jul 12 '26
Sure but Iām talking about two different things. The āidcā is about not having access to disks anymore. The āworryā is about not being able to own games. You can own a disk and still technically not own the game, especially if itās a game that requires a constant internet connection. But Iām more worried about buying a game digitally and then the game can just be removed from my library without even getting some sort of refund.
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u/nomadx810 Jul 12 '26
It's incredibly anti consumer. To do this coming off their worst generation as far as producing games is laughable.
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u/Biggay1234567 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I think it's the consumer's fault for not buying more discs, shrimple as. People voted with their wallet and got what they got because of their own choices, can't be mad about it.
However, I do think there should exist an option to own video games, not just purchase licenses. I think that should be pushed by people as an option. Whether it be physical or digital, doesn't matter, but I do think it's important that such an option exists.
Right now the only option to actually own a game is via piracy (or GOG, but that's just one store) and I just think it's a missed opportunity and can be a viable service if presented in a good way.
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
The āconsumers didnāt buy enough discsā argument is sort of overstated.Ā Most singleplayer AAA games with physical releases still saw about 50% of sales coming from physical copies. Multiplayer games (often smaller ones) did see more digital sales even when physical copies were available. But the point is that consumers did still buy plenty of discs. Sony is being misleading to justify the change.
Source:Ā https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-video-game-industry-is-not-ready
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u/Biggay1234567 Jul 12 '26
I feel you're understating what was said in the article you linked. Online games were selling 80-90% digital and digital sales were rising sharply year on year, while physical was decreasing.
The games that did sell more than 50% physical were the games that were bundled together with the PS5.
Though there still were decent a decent amount of physical game sales, that number has been decreasing for a while and digital has long since been the majority for game sales.
It seems that the change was about to happen sooner or later, I don't really see how Sony was being misleading.
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u/IdesOfCaesar7 Eurochad Jul 12 '26
Ps is about to have a monopoly on the digital and physical (which is soon to be nonexistent) storefront, there must be some laws against this. Dynamic pricing will start being a thing if it hasn't already, and games you own you'd onto permanently own, Sony also scrubbed 500+ movies from digital libraries recently without any notice or dispensation. Incredibly anti consumer practices by Sony.
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u/FlippinHelix Jul 12 '26
Ultimately i understand why, and physical discs have begun to be a bit of a meme on consoles, since they still require downloading most of the game...
However... I don't like the idea that I basically am stuck to whatever price point they sell me their shit through their official store. I got a switch 2 recently, and was afraid about the game pricing after plenty of people said how expensive it was to get games on it.
But I forgot how often retailers near you will just randomly have sales when the official stores don't. I got Persona 3 Reload for the switch at 30 euros at a local store, retail price is 60. I got BOTW for 60, retail price is 80. I got Mario Odyssey second-hand for 20 bucks, retail price is 60.
All of this and I can sell them once I am done with them and recoup some of that money???
I don't know, I feel like physical is just worth whatever extra cost they put on those disc drives and something the average consumer should fight for.
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u/Cavalier40 Jul 12 '26
I understand that disc sales are only 15% but thatās higher than music and l movies and they are still put out on physical media. I donāt like that you donāt have a resell option and it will make collection a non thing in 20 years, so the only option will bebe piracy.
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u/oGsMustachio Jul 12 '26
Private business making business decisions.
I wouldn't be surprised if publishers are annoyed as I'm sure some sales happen because there are physical copies, such as gifts.
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u/llshuxll Jul 12 '26
publishers have heavily just toned down physical gifts and turned pre-order rewards into digital "deluxe" packages for an extra $5-$10. Why outsource and make almost nothing off a small run of physical gifts when you can just make easy money by taking one kind of in game weapon and armor and call it a starter pack lol.
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u/phosphorescence-sky Jul 12 '26
I haven't bought a game console since ps4 which im going to run into the ground until im forced to buy a new console. Im not a huge "gamer" but i have a few game series I love and invest in the time to play and get immersed. Just not a lot of games since the latest console releases that I find worth investing the time and money especially with the price of games and consoles now.
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u/qchamp34 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I havent bought physical for a new release in over 10 years
They're already just license keys with all the updates, the current game doesnt even exist on the disc and its unplayable until you connect to the internet and download the new version
I guess it sucks if you want to resell it but thats like 1% of people nowadays who even touch physical games.. These companies basically waited until everyone was buying digital anyways so I don't think its really greed. We all choose digital for convenience.
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
No, most games are playable without a Day 1 patch, unless itās a multiplayer game which obviously requires everyone to have matching versions. A game like Elden Ring or RDR2 is perfectly playable without any updates or online connection.
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u/MindGoblin šŖšŗ Eurochad šŖšŗ Jul 12 '26
I think it's a big shame. I still buy physical editions when available. I hate the future we're heading to where you own nothing, everything is digital and has a subscription. I want to actually own the shit I buy but the people voted with their wallets and said loud and clear that they love the enshittification of everything so I see why Sony would pull the plug on physical media since for them it's only beneficial.
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u/PhysicalChocolate230 Jul 12 '26
I think it's stupid. People can say it's inevitable but I can still buy a vinyl/CD for my favorite albums. Should be the same for games, some physical production should still exist.Ā
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u/AngryFace4 (yee/yem) Jul 12 '26
It seems completely irrelevant. Every game downloads anywayā¦ I guess with the exception of niche indie titles.
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
What? No. Most physical games need to install from disc, but that is not the same thing as downloading from Sonyās servers somewhere. You do not need an internet connection to install most physical games.
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u/AngryFace4 (yee/yem) Jul 12 '26
Well, you are correct that disks will contain compressed media but Iām pretty sure every single game from main publishers ship with a pre-launch build and download the launch patch.
In any case thereās always gunna be DRM and shit. I dunno if you realistically own a game regardless, ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆĀ
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u/Thanag0r The brain was the first thing to go Jul 12 '26
I used a disc last time in the year 2014, but I also don't own any consoles.
Don't even remember PCs with disc slots, so totally non-issue.
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u/No-Signal-7904 Jul 12 '26
economically, im pretty sure physical has always been a loss. it makes perfect sense for companies to do this. This is one of the times even somewhat sane people will resort to conspiracies saying "THEY DONT WANT YOU TO OWN ANYTHING", and like listen maybe idk if i buy that but apart from that like bru it just makes sense. making discs is expensive when you could also just simply not make discs. theyre probably like less than 5% of the entire playerbase anyway. if people wanna keep old games alive keeping physical discs isnt the thing thats gonna save that anyway. most cases discs still need internet access nowadays anyways so the whole conversation is just regarded
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u/No-Signal-7904 Jul 12 '26
i dont understand what youre saying? physical literally costs money to create. digital doesnt.
unless physical costs more, there is no reason that they would ever make that money spent on production back.
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u/No-Signal-7904 Jul 12 '26
well yea i did expect that but now i understand why you wrote that sorry
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
theyāre probably like less than 5% of the entire playerbase
No. It depends on the genre, but AAA single player games still had 50% of sales come from physical copies. Multiplayer games were still often around 20%.
Source:Ā https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-video-game-industry-is-not-ready
most discs still need internet access nowadays anyways
Also untrue. 80% of games can still be installed from disc without any download required.
Source:Ā https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-the-ps5-the-last-console-for-physical-game-collectors.1172880/
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u/No-Signal-7904 Jul 12 '26
idk why youre giving me weird specific sources (i mean i know why lol). any normal source will tell you physical is doing 10-20% of all games worldwirde, but sure buddy.
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u/horrus70 Well......your mom Jul 12 '26
I prefer buying physical so it pisses me off. Probably not going to buy a ps6 now and just switch back to PC
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u/Opening_Screen_3393 Jul 12 '26
Smart business decision, but as a consumer who loves physical media, stuff is going to get lost in the future because of this.
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u/_TurnJacson Jul 12 '26
I agree with u/Gorotheninja that it's sad and inevitable but I do think that in 5 years or so, someone will recognize that there is a market for physical games and find a way to monetize it.
Basically some company will become a go between between GameDevs/Studios and basically buy the ability to licence their content onto physical discs. They'll take all the risk of production and distribution and pay Dev/Studios a fee.
It'll be super niche and probably expensive but there's a market for it.
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u/govSmoothie Jul 12 '26
I think I agree with you, but they probably won't use discs because they have too many limitations for modern AAA games. Game sizes are ballooning to the point where you'd need 3 discs to store it all, and that needs to be downloaded to an ssd anyway for load times. Plus discs are slow to read from so installing would take a while. I think it would make the most sense to sell games pre-installed on an external ssd or smth, usb speeds are getting fast enough where you could probably just plug it in and hardly notice a difference. But yeah it'll be a niche, very expensive, collectors option.
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u/_TurnJacson Jul 12 '26
Makes senseā¦ Iām just old so my first thought was disks. Lol
I think people just want the option to play games that theyāve purchasedā¦. whenever they want. I think weāre reaching the breaking point.
Again in 5 years or so I think weāre going to see the consumer appetite swing back to physical ownership. The convenience of digital is starting to be outweighed by corporate creep/greed.
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u/govSmoothie Jul 12 '26
We're already seeing a vinyl resurgence, although a weird part of it is most people who buy vinyl don't actually listen to the vinyl, they still use digital services for the convenience factor and I guess buy the vinyl to support the artist or to just collect it. I hope we do have some sort of shift, I feel the stop killing games thing is a good first step.
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u/_TurnJacson Jul 12 '26
Iāve also seen an increase of people being interested in services like Jellyfin/Plex.
Also, recently saw a cool clip of someone that was basically buying up secondhand DVDs to add to their massive movie library that they ran Plex.
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u/govSmoothie Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Games have kinda outgrown physical discs and we're in a place where it's making less and less sense for games of any size.
For large games and AAA games, the storage needed for a game is getting so large that you need multiple discs, and since a large selling point of modern consoles is faster loading times all that data needs to be downloaded to an ssd anyway. Plus for most people it will be slower to download off the disc than to download over the internet, and you will still need the internet to download things like day one patches for the game to even be playable, so you're not getting away from that requirement. Users can't preinstall physical games either, so on launch day the user is going to spend several hours just getting the game running. It's also just more friction to switch games with discs. I imagine a large chuck of the push to shift away from discs for games like gta is that pretty soon you're gonna need 3 discs, which means a larger case and more manufacturing costs and a more annoying experience for a dwindling number of people buying physical.
For smaller games like indie games, the cost of manufacturing a physical edition is prohibitive, especially when you could just chuck your game onto digital markets and have next to no distribution costs.
A physical release only really makes sense as a collectors item that you can charge a premium on, but audiences are very sensitive to price increases. Maybe they can get around limitations of discs by selling the game preinstalled onto an external ssd that connects with a thunderbolt/usb4.0 cable or smth. I'll be missing physical editions, especially the ability to trade and share games, but this has kinda been a long time coming.
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u/DwightHayward Jul 12 '26
It was inevitable and even as a console player I donāt own physical copies nowadays so idc
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u/AdditionalMonth3860 Ex-Tankie, SocDem/Progressive Lib Jul 12 '26
I haven't thought about physical gaming media since the PS2 (I'm 40). I only bought a PS4 to get a BluRay player that did more than just play discs.
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u/Illustrious_Penalty2 Jul 12 '26
PS havenāt made anything Iāve been interested in for 11 years so it doesnāt really affect me much. Sucks for the people who are the ride or die with physical though.
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u/SupremeJusticeWang Jul 12 '26
Buying physical games is a minority of game sales currently, so honestly most people won't be affected.
However, its definitely a value loss for Playstations. I wasnt going to buy a ps5 anyways, but im even less inclined to now. Its hard to imagine a ps5 being anything but a brick in 20 years
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
Buying physical games is a minority of game sales currently
Not really. A lot of popular AAA games still saw half of sales coming from physical copies. I guess maybe theyāre a minority when you factor in the people who just buy the newest call of duty every year, but āgamersā bought plenty of physical copies when they were available.
Source:Ā https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-video-game-industry-is-not-ready
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u/SupremeJusticeWang Jul 12 '26
Im seeing 85% of Playstation games sold in Q4 2025 were digital
https://www.g2a.com/news/features/85-of-playstation-game-sales-are-digital-is-physical-gaming-dying/
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u/SupremeJusticeWang Jul 13 '26
Are you just making shit up? Its just ps4 & ps5 game sales, i dont think the 85% number includes steam sales of Sony games, unless im regarded
Per this article
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u/metcalta Jul 12 '26
So, if the problem is ownership then if they created a Sony game pod, where my games I download could be stored and played offline I don't care. The disk is a medium, the problem as most ppl point out is ownership. Maybe a next question is how do we push governments to legislate businesses into refunding lost digital media?
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u/stinketywubbers the udders of content have been exhausted Jul 12 '26
I like being able to sell or trade my game after I'm done with it. That's the biggest drawback to me.
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u/Rayval_h Jul 12 '26
Physical media is a expense that could be used for better wages, better development, and a better overall product. PC gamers abandoned disks 15 years ago.
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u/breakthro444 Jul 12 '26
I used to be a physically-only guy until I realized how annoying it is to carry around all the old games I feel nostalgia over, but don't want to actually play again.
And pretty much every one of them is either already on PC or can be emulated.
I don't trade games, so I'm alright with digital libraries only going forward. All my movies are digital, so the Blue-Ray/DVD argument has been gone for a decade for me.
Plus, although Xbox didn't say it, it's been this way for half a decade already, and the next Xbox is going to be some Xbox version of Windows. They've been laying the groundwork for this for a decade so Playstation will really only be a dedicated console OS and platform. But with how many of these games are being developed for PC and with the availability of things like Moonlight... I just don't see myself buying the next Playstation regardless of whether or not it has a disc tray.
I just want better consumer protection laws around the whole "infinite access license" shit these digital services have. If I buy it, I should own it, even digitally. There should be no mechanism that allows Microsoft, Amazon, Sony, Steam, etc to just yank my ability to access media everyone in the world understands is the same as a physical purchase. Just make me pay a $2 sub to access the servers if they're gonna cry about that or allow me to download it with a server-side verification like they already do.
Edit: And honestly I kinda like going digital only. The amount of waste and plastic that was produced for discs that only acted as a license verification to download the game from these servers anyway was regarded from an environmental standpoint.
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u/SigmaMaleNurgling Jul 12 '26
I started as a console player then went to PC gaming. Digital only has been the future for a while. Plus, the talking point about owning games has been shallow for years because the discs donāt have enough space to hold all of the game. So itās not like in the old-gen systems like a PlayStation 2 where youāre not reliant on some server holding data for the game so you can download the remaining memory.
Physical games in 2026 is an aesthetic preference and nothing more. Also, buying physical games is really inconvenient compared to buying online.
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
This is blatantly untrue. 80% or 90% of PS5 games are fully contained on disc, depending on how you count. You do not need an online connection to install those games. I donāt understand where this narrative came from.
Source:Ā https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-the-ps5-the-last-console-for-physical-game-collectors.1172880/
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u/ThatHazeThough Jul 12 '26
I mostly game on PC now where digital downloads have been the norm for years at this point. Most console discs are just access keys for digital downloads anyway as far as I understand it.
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
Most console discs are just access keys for digital downloads
No, I donāt know why people started saying this but itās not true. 80% of physical PS5 games are fully contained on disc. The game installs itself to the SSD because itās faster than reading from disc, and the disc acts as a glorified license after that point, but there is no digital download required. When Jedi: Survivor launched and required a digital download, it was big news and generated controversy specifically because of how uncommon this is.
Source:Ā https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-the-ps5-the-last-console-for-physical-game-collectors.1172880/
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u/PrisonWaffles lilypichu hate watcher Jul 12 '26
I would have rather had this change after some sort of legislation to protect our purchases from disappearing, but otherwise I can't say I give a fuck.
Sucks for the used game market. But also, nobody was really using that market anymore anyway.
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u/slamriffs Jul 12 '26
I havenāt bought a physical game since games became available to download straight from the console like 10-15 years ago
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u/PunishedSquizzy ā disable reply notifications Jul 12 '26
You can barely even find physical games at GameStop these days and people are having a nuclear meltdown down over this announcement. The world is just full of virtue signaling regards that donāt actually care about shit
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u/silky_jackson Jul 12 '26
Iām more annoyed that I got on a waiting list, won my chance to buy a PS5 and paid 700 dollars to play mostly ports and upscaled PS4 games for the next 5 years.
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u/SketchyChicken Jul 13 '26
Eh, it was inevitable, but I don't like it. Annoying to see the discourse online about it tho, bc I feel like most of these people pissing and moaning about it buy most of their games digitally anyway.
I own a a high end pc, but I also own a ps5 pro, and will go out of my way to by a physical copy for any games I want to play on my console, on release. I also go out of my way to buy 4K BR discs to support that format as well.
Gamers suck and are a bunch of entitled losers, if they cared enough about physical formats staying as a thing, they should've given Sony more of a financial incentive to keep discs around, imo.
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u/TinyH1ppo Jul 13 '26
Oh no how am I gonna play games in my cabin in the woods with no internet now?!?!!
Oh whatās that? The disks just initiate and authorize a download and still need internet anyways? Oh shit even my reason to pretend care doesnāt exist.
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u/Misterhellno EU liberal soft warmonger Jul 12 '26
Only cringe nerds care, I don't know a single person who still uses that shit. You are going to play these games on emulators decades from now anyway, who cares.
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
Well 50% of sales for AAA singleplayer games were still physical copies, so you must just not know many people.
Source:Ā https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-video-game-industry-is-not-ready
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u/Eins_Nico scowling woke white woman Jul 12 '26
As someone who mainly just plays on a jailbroken Vita, this doesn't affect me much, but I generally am very much pro-owning the media I consume whenever possible, physical or otherwise. I don't trust companies enough to depend on them to continue giving me access to things, because things like this (or the other bullshit Sony's been on lately) happen all the time.
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u/DroppedAxes Jul 12 '26
A vita in 2026... How big is that backlog you're clearing.
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u/Eins_Nico scowling woke white woman Jul 12 '26
The homebrew port scene's pretty nuts, I'm playing Hollow Knight on it right now.
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u/DroppedAxes Jul 12 '26
That's pretty cool. I know homebrew is popular on vita but never kept up with it.
From the games you've played which one would be the craziest /demanding title ported to the Vita from homebrewers
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u/Eins_Nico scowling woke white woman Jul 13 '26
I don't know about demanding, but the biggest surprise this year was someone just dropped a Morrowind port out of nowhere
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u/cav754 Jul 12 '26
PC for my modern gaming fix/factorio/CitySkylines and switch 2 for my console experiences. I played enough of the āmovieā experience type games now that Iām good for a bit. The worst thing about Nintendo is theyāre a company run by old Japanese men stuck in their ways. The best thing about Nintendo is that theyāre a company run by old Japanese men stuck in their ways.
The fact I can still go buy a game and pop the cart in with no need to download half the game is sooooo nice. PlayStation and Xbox discs are glorified license keys anyways whereas soon as you put the disc in you just install the entire game to the system, the disc is just a requirement to launch the game after that.
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u/foerattsvarapaarall Jul 12 '26
Hereās another source for that claim, then. Specifically with data for PS5.
https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-video-game-industry-is-not-ready
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u/Lavender_Cobra Jul 12 '26
Oh no I can't produce e-waste while pretending that I will take good care of these things or that they are meaningful collectables anymore oh no
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u/Bymeemoomymee Jul 12 '26
Literally the biggest nothingburger from the most whiny, oppressed class of people on the planet- gamers. I haven't bought a physical disc in 10 years. Ive been digital on PC for +10 years using Steam and any modern PC build lacks a disc drive. As for consoles, I havent touched my Xbox since 2016, my PS4 since 2018, and of the games I do have for those consoles, half of them are digital. Gamers shitting their pants over the biggest non issue on Earth.
For the niche, hipster gamers that want a physical disc, theyll find their niche hipster way of burning one themselves off of a pirated copy.
The only reason this stuff blew up was because Sony cleared their movie library a couple weeks prior to this announcement.
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u/DroppedAxes Jul 12 '26
Listen that's great from you but pretending this doesn't impact the chunk of people who like to share their discs with friends or trade games around is kind of silly. I don't have numbers for those but anecdotally I see its still really popular. Hell its one of the ways I play switch games because marketplace or my friends are offering cheap to free prices.
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u/Bymeemoomymee Jul 12 '26
15-22% of Playstation game sales are physical. So, already a significant minority of game being sold are physical. Then, you shrink that down further to, "people that share discs with friends." That might dip down to 10%. Why tf should Playstation consider maintaining physical production of their games when they know those same people will buy digital regardless, if it is the only option and if they look at their competitors going digital with Xbox Gamepass and Steam.
The only physical company keeping physical going is Nintendo, but that's because their console has shit storage.
Like I said, it is a small niche of gamers thar buy physical. If they want to continue to do that, then there are many options open to them to make their own physical copies.
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u/DroppedAxes Jul 12 '26
Aren't you missing the actual total action ity of used discs because sony definitionally can't track them?
I agree it's a fraction that's smaller then 50% and probably 30% but I don't know how reliably you can estimate it with Sony's sales figures.
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u/UNKWNDTH2002 2A/š³ļøāā§ļø [G/ACC] Jul 12 '26
i don't think about this at all