Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Sony has announced that from January 2028 they will no longer produce physical discs for any new PlayStation games, going digital only across the entire platform, and this video breaks down what that means and why it has made up my mind on the PlayStation 6.
An opinion piece on the death of physical PlayStation discs and where it leaves the PS6.
The announcement confirms that new games releasing from 2028 onward will only come as digital versions or download codes in a physical box, with no disc that actually holds the game. Existing discs and games releasing before the cut off will still work, but going forward the whole platform is moving away from physical media. GTA 6 was the first major PlayStation game to do this, so the writing has been on the wall for a while, but now Sony has made it official.
This video digs into why that matters, from the loss of genuine ownership when you only buy a digital licence rather than the game itself, to the inability to lend, sell or trade your games, and the very real risk of content simply disappearing. Sony recently announced the deletion of over 550 movies and TV shows from people's PlayStation libraries due to an expiring StudioCanal licensing deal, a stark example of what the digital only future actually looks like in practice.
The video also covers the PS6 handheld rumours and whether cartridges were ever on the table, and gives credit to Nintendo's Game-Key Card approach on Switch 2 as a genuine middle ground that keeps physical ownership alive even for digital games. When stacked on top of price hikes, PlayStation Plus increases, the push toward generative AI and a PS6 rumoured to launch around a thousand dollars, the death of discs is the final straw. Let me know where you land on this in the comments.
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Sony has announced that from January 2028 they will no longer produce physical discs for any new PlayStation games, going digital only across the entire platform, and this video breaks down what that means and why it has made up my mind on the PlayStation 6.
An opinion piece on the death of physical PlayStation discs and where it leaves the PS6.
The announcement confirms that new games releasing from 2028 onward will only come as digital versions or download codes in a physical box, with no disc that actually holds the game. Existing discs and games releasing before the cut off will still work, but going forward the whole platform is moving away from physical media. GTA 6 was the first major PlayStation game to do this, so the writing has been on the wall for a while, but now Sony has made it official.
This video digs into why that matters, from the loss of genuine ownership when you only buy a digital licence rather than the game itself, to the inability to lend, sell or trade your games, and the very real risk of content simply disappearing. Sony recently announced the deletion of over 550 movies and TV shows from people's PlayStation libraries due to an expiring StudioCanal licensing deal, a stark example of what the digital only future actually looks like in practice.
The video also covers the PS6 handheld rumours and whether cartridges were ever on the table, and gives credit to Nintendo's Game-Key Card approach on Switch 2 as a genuine middle ground that keeps physical ownership alive even for digital games. When stacked on top of price hikes, PlayStation Plus increases, the push toward generative AI and a PS6 rumoured to launch around a thousand dollars, the death of discs is the final straw. Let me know where you land on this in the comments.
#PS6 #PlayStation #PhysicalMedia
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