'We Put in a Lot of Thought and Time' — Sony Acknowledges 'Strong Views' on Decision to Kill PlayStation Discs, but Insists 'We'...
Sony has said it won’t change its mind on killing PlayStation discs in 2028, while acknowledging “strong views” from the video game community.
Sony has said it won’t change its mind on killing PlayStation discs in 2028, while acknowledging “strong views” from the video game community.
The online backlash has seen gamers continue to call on Sony to U-turn on its decision, signing online petitions and swarming over PlayStation social media posts to express concern about video game preservation and ownership — even overshadowing the release of new games that have nothing to do with what’s going on at Sony. Meanwhile, backers of physical media have called on gamers to boycott PlayStation for a week in August to send a message to Sony that its decision to kill discs from 2028 is unacceptable.
Complaints have also come from other groups. The UK’s Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA), for example, called Sony’s decision “a triumph of corporate convenience over consumer choice.”
Following the release of its first quarter financial results today, Sony held an investor-focused Q&A in which it answered questions from analysts. Inevitably, Sony was asked about its decision to stop selling PlayStation discs. In Sony's first comments on the issue since the announcement was made on July 1, chief financial officer Lin Tao, speaking through a live interpreter during the call, signalled the company’s intention to go through with it.
Here’s the response in full:
“We announced that January 2028 onwards we will no longer be manufacturing game discs. So, one-and-a-half years ahead. So we made this announcement at this time.
“There are various reasons we made this decision. The biggest being that the digitalization of contents overall has been progressing. That’s the big factor. It’s not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of contents, digitalization is progressing.
“And so when we think about the future — and we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we’re going to cautiously move this forward.
“And to this decision, we have received various opinions and people have strong views, and we understand that the community has put forth those views to us. Games are loved by many people. It’s a form of entertainment that’s loved by people, and it’s connected to people’s fond memories in many cases.
“And so we understand those emotions. We want to consider that. And in the future digital ecosystem, how do we engage the gamers is something that we would like to continue to explore.”
Essentially, Tao is saying Sony won’t budge despite the backlash. And in that final line is there a hint at a possible method for preserving physical discs digitally?
When Sony announced its decision it said it was simply following consumer trends. “In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only,” Sid Shuman, Senior Director, Sony Interactive Entertainment Content Communications, said in a post on PlayStation Blog.
“As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital, physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting January 2028. Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only. This transition has no impact on games that already released, or will be releasing, prior to January 2028 in disc format.
“This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs. This transition will enable us to align more closely with how most of our community prefers to access and play games today."
Reinforcing this trend, Mat Piscatella, Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana, said that just seven PlayStation video games had sold more than 100,000 physical units so far this year in the U.S.. Only two PlayStation video games sold more than 10,000 physical units in the U.S. during the week ending July 11.
There are of course instances of companies reversing controversial decisions amid a backlash, but, as analysts have told IGN, it remains unlikely that Sony will U-turn on this.
Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games, suggested that even if half a million people cancelled their PlayStation Plus subscription in protest, it would be just a drop in the ocean for Sony.
"I sympathize with physical media fans, but Sony will not reverse this decision," Toto told IGN. "They of course knew what the online reaction would look like, and they now wait for this storm to pass.
"Sony has over 120 million active PlayStation users," he continued. "Around 50 million people subscribe to PlayStation Plus. As a thought experiment, let's say 500,000 cancel in protest, that would be just 1% of that business gone — of course not enough for Sony to start rethinking. Digital is just too lucrative."
Piers Harding-Rolls, games industry analyst at Ampere, has said a lot has changed over the course of the last two generations. "Console gaming is the last hold-out for physical media in the gaming sector, but physical product has been declining in importance," he said in a post on the Ampere website. "Back in 2013 when the PS4 launched, Ampere data shows that only 13% of total full games unit sales for Sony consoles were digital (including digital-only games). Fast forward to 2025, and this digital share of full game purchases stood at almost 80% of the total.
"Inevitably there will be concerns from PlayStation gamers around various aspects of this announcement including choice, accessing older physical games on new consoles, the ability to collect physical games, and game preservation, however the purchasing trends of gamers are clear."
One analyst said fans of physical media had their chance and blew it, so there’s no going back. “If gamers and preservationists had bought more physical games, Sony wouldn’t have seen the digital sales ratios that justify this decision,” Robin Zhu, a games analyst at Bernstein, told the Financial Times.
For Sony, going all-digital for new game releases will earn it more money from every sale at a time when console sales are expected to plummet due to their rising cost. For a first-party PlayStation game such as The Last of Us, Sony will only keep around 65% of the money from a physical copy, with around 30% going to the retailer and roughly another 5% on manufacturing costs. Meanwhile, for a physical copy of a third-party game such as the Activision-published Call of Duty, Sony will get a licensing fee, likely around 15%.
For downloads, however, the margins are much higher. For a first-party game sold via Sony's own PlayStation Store, the company obviously keeps 100% of the revenue. For third-party games such as Call of Duty, meanwhile, Sony keeps a 30% cut (so, roughly $21 for a $70 game).
If Sony pulls this off, Microsoft Xbox follows, and then Nintendo.
For the love of God, cancel your PlayStation sub people.
Now be a good goy slave and take Microsoft's 060606 smart mark.
Sony/sonus - "sound" cannot turn around...only an instrument within sound can shape a circle by reneging the linear procession of sound.
Sound moves and cannot be owned...only an instrument who reneges (denies) sound can make an ownership claim.
First implies whole > second implies partial > third implies party of partials within whole.
Microsoft's patent 060606 implies being a subhuman goy slave, and taking the Mark of the Beast that is mentioned in the holy scriptures that will soon become reality.
Mind you Bill Gates is a known pedophile that worked with Epstein.
Fuck Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and the whole AI gaming Industry in 2026!
As in pater (father) + "And call no man your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, which is in heaven." ~Matthew 23:9
Father (patent) + divine service (office)...that's what one ignores when trading a mark (trademark) of ownership aka the mark of the beast (astute being).
Aka sub (matter) hu (momentum) man (motion)...the status quo of being misused as insult among beings.
And Jesus Christ never called yhwh his father in heaven, He only called Abba his real Father!
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More like, actually the status quo of being used by the Kenites/Cainites that currently run conspiracies.win
Because yahweh/hayah (was) cannot be called without contradicting that which was with what you call it is. Like how the word "sound" cannot be used to call natural sound by an articulated word without establishing a contradiction.
Because abba/abh implies "father"... https://www.etymonline.com/word/ABBA
Also notice that ABBA represents four (tetra) letters (grammaton) aka YHWH... that ain't a coincidence.
Because the one and only father cannot be MINE or YOURS aka the all giving cannot be taken by anyone within.
Neither can there be more than actual (action of all), nor does likeness represent actual, which implies the same action for each diverse reaction within.
Status quo (unaltered state) implies motion (inception towards death) for each altered state of matter (life) within. A being cannot USE status quo...only RE-USE it while being used within it.
The label "Kenites/Cainites" or any other contradicts the current (inception towards death) which runs the being (life) holding onto the label.
Using it requires ones consent to the suggestion of another, which in return confines the essence of ones being to an artificial status quo run by others (moderators).
It's that consent to any suggestion which represents CON (together) SPIR (to breathe) ACY (action)...if you withdraw that consent, then you are breathing within action by yourself.
The ACY represents God; the SPIR represents the spiritual animation by God of each one within, and the CON implies ones ignorance thereof by joining together with one another. The suggested word con-spir-acy represents an inversion of ACY generating SPIR while allowing CON to be shaped.
The cainites you mentioned implies Cain, from Hebrew Qayin, from Semitic stem q-y-n - "to form, fashion"... https://www.etymonline.com/word/Cain
It's the forming of words like con-spir-acy to distract from the flow of God which represents Cain; the created one who disrupts the anointed one (Christ).
You are a heretical LIAR!
a) Heretic; noun - "one who holds a doctrine at variance with established or dominant standards"... God moves; I analyze what those who ignore motion are holding onto as doctrines; standards; beliefs; norms etc.
FREE will of choice cannot be heretical without contradicting itself.
b) Lie versus/verto (to turn) truth implies a circle, while God delineates being aka action > reaction or cause > effect or flow > form etc.
Free will of choice can only operate in-between balance ...others suggest imbalance like truth vs lie to tempt choice off-center.
c) Tetra-grammaton implies "four letters"... https://www.etymonline.com/word/tetragrammaton
You brought ABBA (father) into the discussion, which has four (tetra) letters (grammaton)...as does YHWH, which as Yahweh (was) cannot be uttered without shaping a contradiction (was vs is).
you will own nothing and you will be happyYou will go out and kill and you will be happy.
Notice that STAT (stationary; having no apparent motion) contradicts ION (motion); then notice that PLAY (plight; pledge) is based on ones engagement with danger.
What happens if one incorporates (corporation) plurality (group) into the singularity of sound (sonus; sony)? A contradiction is being shaped... https://img.gvid.tv/i/2F5H7Zae.jpg