Physical Media - A Slight Return

Whilst I’ve written about my fondness for physical media already, the recent announcement by Sony that it was ending the production of physical PlayStation games from 2028 lit a fire up the internet’s metaphorical rear-end and I think I need to talk about it again. This announcement from Sony coincided with the news that they were removing around 500 movies from the collections of PlayStation users who bought StudioCanal movies like Terminator 2 through the PlayStation Store, hot on the heels of its decision to remove Discovery content from the same users in 2023. Oh, while we are at it, they also said they’re turning off the PlayStation store for PS3 and Vita, erasing the content still tied to those platforms in the process. Games Whilst I’m not too surprised to see the end of physical games on PlayStation, I fear this has largely been the result of three big problems in the industry. Games broken at launch - Sure, you can buy the blu-ray with the game on, but you will likely be…