The sad twilight of physical release games on consoles

Like many retro computer fans out there, I was dismayed to learn this past week of Sony’s plan to stop producing physical box release games from 2028. It is a sad confirmation of what most of us already knew - like streaming is trying to kill off physical blu ray and dvd releases in favor of a ‘pay monthly for getting nothing you can keep’ model, now Sony is going to do the same to games. Clearly the point of Sony setting 2028 as a deadline is to make sure people know that the upcoming Playstation 6 will not have physical release games. The Playstation 5 will be the last Sony PlayStation model with physical box game releases. I am glad to say I have quite a few physical release games for the PS5, here is a small sample. With the upcoming removal of factories making these physical releases, the global distribution costs and of course the local country distributor and retailer markups, will the direct digital games bought on the PS6 be cheaper than physical releases?No, of course they…