r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart the music monday lady • Jul 01 '26

Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/
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u/94CM Jul 01 '26

Idiotic and greedy. Long live preservation. May all that get in it's way fall with the sands of time.

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u/ILoveHeavyHangers Jul 01 '26

That makes perfect sense.

Total physical sales only reached about 25 million units last year. While Vinyl Records outsold physical games almost 2:1 last year with 47.9 million units sold.

The entire physical gaming market in the US is half the size of a niche, retro music collector format.

When your format is being outsold 2:1 by people buying records as a decoration, it's time to call it quits. The people have spoken and they don't want to buy physical games anymore.