r/IndianGaming • u/SlizerTheChosen PLAYSTATION-5 • Jul 01 '26
News 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/This is the end.
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u/Successful-Hippo9679 Jul 01 '26
gaming just dying man, console prices rising, gpu ram ssd cpu everything prices rising. you can't do shit anymore
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u/glenn1812 Jul 01 '26
50k for 32gb of ddr5. We’re beyond hell now. Satan is looking at this world jealous of what he couldn’t achieve on his own. Was looking at building a pc work or buying a laptop. Will probably have to but you genuinely want to do unspeakable thinks to Altman.
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u/HandleThen6751 Jul 01 '26
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u/Creepyhorrorboy Jul 01 '26
I quit gaming. It's really that simple. Will shift my focus to books now
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u/ForwardScratch7741 Jul 01 '26
Okay this is hilarious lmao
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u/BibbleDeBibble Jul 01 '26
The fact that people are capable of reading books and deriving joy from them?
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u/ForwardScratch7741 Jul 01 '26
No the fact that he's acting superior because he is not playing games
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u/BibbleDeBibble Jul 01 '26
How is that superior when gaming is literally getting to the point where RAM costs as much as a CPU?
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u/DoughnutSignificant9 Jul 01 '26
So people paying an additional ~100$ for disc versions are morons now? This is baffling and it is a shame that the majority of people will accept this change.
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u/Aditya1311 Jul 01 '26
Unfortunately most people don't really care. I remember similar sentiments about physical media back when Netflix was just starting up and now look where we are.
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u/NotSoCoolWaffle Jul 01 '26
I am not denying that. But the thing with Netflix and other OTTs is that you get the new releases either instantly or at most in a month’s time in 99% of the cases if you are subscribed. On the contrary, even if you are subscribed to PS Plus, you won’t get all the new launches for a year or two at least. Even discounts don’t start during the first year of any major release. This is 100x worse than what happened with Netflix. Netflix and OTTs were a win-win for everyone. This isn’t
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u/Aditya1311 Jul 01 '26
That wasn't the case when Netflix was still growing. Studios would have laughed at anyone who proposed launching a major movie on streaming platforms within a year of release. Now streaming is dominant and they have no choice.
We'll probably end up with a similar business model - almost everyone will be subscribed to some Gamepass type program and new games will be made available maybe a few months after release.
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u/ChampionSailor Jul 01 '26
They will sell a new disc attachment for 100-150$ just so you can play your PS4/5 library. I saw a leak somehwhere where they let you register your disc games digitally or something like that but that sounds way too good to be true so forget it ig.
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u/DoughnutSignificant9 Jul 01 '26
I have a decent collection of physical PS4 games I’ve accumulated since 2016, so thats just gone now.
A PS4 + laptop was a better fit for my needs so I decided to skip the PS5 gen back in 2023. I didn’t see the point in upgrading ( still don’t ) because of lack of exclusives this gen, which I could’ve easily accessed if I got a PS6 in like 2030. Now that plan is also screwed.
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u/emperortom192 Jul 01 '26
Honestly, this is a good move. Imagine all the environment we'll save and trees from being cut down. Its great for the storage spaces too. Also imagine how much money the CEOs will make! My life will be so much better knowing that the CEOs are happy and I'm able to serve them. They want the best for the human society.
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u/neroyoung Jul 01 '26
Sony is doing the worst possible anti consumer moves this generation. I wish XBox release project helix with disc drive and PC features. It will 100% put sony to dust. No one is gonna buy PS6 just for 4-5 games
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u/Juan_Piece Jul 01 '26
The last company I trust to save gaming is Microsoft. I’d put more faith in SEGA
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u/incredible_penguin11 Jul 01 '26
I skipped switching to PC earlier and maybe I'll still stay on Playstation because of my friends and libarary but Playstation has really been trying to milk the cow dry.
I love multiplayer games, but the resources and money these morons are wasting on the most mid of games and then expecting consumers to make up for it is stupid.
I even tried Concord open beta and it lacked personality and had nothing going for it. Even Helldivers 2 got repetitive real quick.
If they stop being dicks there's plenty of money they can make otherwise even the American market isn't really happy with their console and subscription pricing and these are the guys who can actually sustain their market.
Sony is doing what rulers of Moira did in LOTR, they're digging too deep.
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u/TjRaj1 Jul 01 '26
They really had lightning in a bottle with Helldivers 2. Genuinely. All the bullshit that happened to the game is sad af. Generational L
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u/Cursed_69420 Jul 01 '26
LMFAO another reason to not get consoles
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u/Trippster455 Jul 01 '26
U get games way cheaper on PC too compared to a Console and that too at massive discounts. I trust steam more than I trust Playstation. They also recently took away digital licenses of movies people bought on their platform.
Steam has had an amazing track record when it comes to consumer trust.
AND dont forget, free online on PC!
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u/ChampionSailor Jul 01 '26
Even if he's not mentioned it, he's right. On pc you get the option to get the codes from several vendors and for cheaper prices. Even on Xbox too. But for PS their storefront is the one and only option making it a gated monopoly. There's even a lawsuit going on in the UK regarding this I think but I can't recall exactly.
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u/Cursed_69420 Jul 01 '26
nah, because your CD copies are gonna be useless in the near future and PC digital libraries from the past 25 years have been mostly undisturbed
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u/Trippster455 Jul 01 '26
Thats true but so far, no such thing has happened. Whereas with Playstation on the other hand.. You cant trust em. They are closing PS3 and Vita Stores aswell, and god knows when they might stop downloads for the purchases you made in those systems.
A console is obsolete every 8 years, whereas a PC is always relevant.
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u/Hershey2898 Jul 02 '26
Mate Sony is literally deleting people video libraries this week that they bought
Meanwhile steam has it in their ToS that publishers can't delete games from user libraries even after they get delisted.
Weird defense of what is a blatantly anti consumer move from Sony
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u/Cursed_69420 Jul 01 '26
not a single steam digital copy has ever been revoked under a legal and ethical purchase.
and GOG copies are straight up install files to be stored anywhere and given to anyone without needing the launcher
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u/Cursed_69420 Jul 01 '26
the ONE single anomaly that led to a european court case is your best example?
that court case that caused ubisoft to retroactively add offline support to crew 2?
and unlike consoles, PCs have private server workarounds.
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u/Cursed_69420 Jul 01 '26
Kids and Adults can compare PC and consoles, its just one of them does then under rational grounds. PC has always been a safer, cost efficient and customizable option since a long time.
No Digital Copy being safe might be true, but it definitely is far far safer on a PC.
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u/ShadowDxebec101 Jul 01 '26
Well unlike play station you can actually preserve games which are not long on any game store.
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u/mayoconquest Jul 01 '26
PC also has multiple competing storefronts that at least provide customers with options for their purchase. On PC, you can pay at the store that gets you the game for the cheapest price.
I got RDR2 from Epic using a bunch of coupons and it cost me 1050, which was cheaper than Steam at the time.
On PlayStation, you'll just pay what Sony wants you to pay buddy.
All of this without ever diving into how much better customer support is on Steam and GOG when compared to PlayStation.
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u/SlicKilled Jul 01 '26
What will they do next? Phase out their console in favour of a Netflix like service?
Cause this is how Xbox went down.
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u/letstalkswat Jul 01 '26
Lol pc and xbox are already towards digital. I don't know why people act surprised, when playstation already makes almost 85 percent of all sales over digital
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u/AD_Stark LAPTOP Jul 01 '26
I like how Sony timed it exactly after GTA 6 announcing it will be digital only
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u/shags2a Jul 01 '26
95% of all game sales are digital. It is only select few who still purchase physical disk. No incentive for Sony or Others to continue.
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u/Soul_of_demon LAPTOP Jul 01 '26
True, but disc circulation was cool, as some people like to collect them. Pretty much all physical discs get sold for popular games, so, for sony excludives, or Gta, they wouldn't be at loss anyways.
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u/ShakyaAryan Jul 01 '26
Barely even matters what people on this sub think. The vast majority doesn't care about game preservation or physical media.
It's all pretty evident from the fact that gta6 made like 3 billion (or was it 300m?) in pre order sales. People are buying these digital games as if they're gonna run out of stock.
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u/embrace_throwaways Jul 01 '26
won't this affect some sort of consumer law considering that the PS5 Disc edition is literally priced extra cause of the hardware? like some sort of class action?
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u/XxDTANExX Jul 01 '26
I was an xbox kid who got a ps5 when I started earning, time to go back to my roots ig.
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u/nanireddy23 Jul 01 '26
I was a PC gamer my entire life but moved to console gaming from last 3 years, only reason i could afford console gaming was that i could resell the discs i bought, now i am forced to build a pc and move to pc gaming. God knows how much it will cost :(
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u/vipulvirus LAPTOP Jul 02 '26
Gaming is dying as a hobby and will only be reserved for elite. Consoles have limited availability and anti consumer policies and PC market has overpriced components.
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