Sony has made it pretty clear that it sees producing physical media as a shrinking, soon-to-be extinct practice, which is why it is stopping disc production for PS5 and PS6 from January 2028 . …
Sony’s decision to kill physical game disc production for PlayStation from January 2028 marks a profound shift in how the console ecosystem functions - and it unsurprisingly dominated discussion on our weekly DF Direct news show. …
… That includes impossibility of used game sales or game lending, lock-in to a single marketplace, and the knock-on effects on the many industries that rely on physical game discs. …
Sony announced today that it was shutting down production of physical PlayStation discs, starting in January 2028, in the biggest hint that we've gotten so far that the PlayStation 6 will be an all-digital device. …
… This is a device that requires some level of physical and conceptual adjustment then, but that's no bad thing. …