Thoughts On Playstation Discontinuing Physical Discs

Playstation (aka Sony Interactive Entertainment) recently dropped news that they will be discontinuing production of physical discs for new games released after January 2028. Instead of gab on it in a social media thread like my reflex usually is, I figured I’d just spew my scattered thoughts into a post. I. This is, obviously, very bad. It is also, sadly, not surprising. Video games’ transition to an all-digital future seems to be inevitable, as far as I understand. If we were all privy to the year-over-year graphs showing the trend of digital sales versus physical sales, the graphs that execs of every publisher and platform holder are looking at, we would probably throw up our hands and accept the inevitability too. Ten or fifteen years from now I imagine nearly every video game will be a digital download, not a physical item you get from a store. There are also not a lot of avenues for indies to distribute games physically on their own. Indiepocalypse is one of the few people I’ve…