Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Sony is making one of the biggest changes in PlayStation history. Starting in 2028, new PlayStation games will no longer be released on physical discs. Everything will move to digital. Sony says this is simply where customers are heading. And on paper, they have a point. Most PlayStation game sales are already digital. But that does not tell the full story. The announcement sparked a huge backlash from players, retailers, and even people inside the game industry. Most PS5 owners still choose consoles with disc drives. Physical games can be shared, resold, traded in, collected, and kept forever. Digital games cannot. Once everything runs through Sony’s store, Sony controls the price, the license, and whether you can access what you paid for. We have already seen what can happen when digital ownership goes wrong. Games get delisted. Servers shut down. Movies disappear from libraries. Accounts can be closed. In some cases, something you bought can simply stop working. So this video looks at why Sony is really moving away from physical games, how much of this is about customer demand, how much is about margins, and why the death of physical media could change what it means to actually own a game.
Timestamps:
0:00 - No More Physical Media
0:34 - The Announcement
5:35 - The End Of Physical?
8:45 - Second Hand Margins
Sources: pastebin.com/DwpmWtNM
Sony is making one of the biggest changes in PlayStation history. Starting in 2028, new PlayStation games will no longer be released on physical discs. Everything will move to digital. Sony says this is simply where customers are heading. And on paper, they have a point. Most PlayStation game sales are already digital. But that does not tell the full story. The announcement sparked a huge backlash from players, retailers, and even people inside the game industry. Most PS5 owners still choose consoles with disc drives. Physical games can be shared, resold, traded in, collected, and kept forever. Digital games cannot. Once everything runs through Sony’s store, Sony controls the price, the license, and whether you can access what you paid for. We have already seen what can happen when digital ownership goes wrong. Games get delisted. Servers shut down. Movies disappear from libraries. Accounts can be closed. In some cases, something you bought can simply stop working. So this video looks at why Sony is really moving away from physical games, how much of this is about customer demand, how much is about margins, and why the death of physical media could change what it means to actually own a game.
Timestamps:
0:00 - No More Physical Media
0:34 - The Announcement
5:35 - The End Of Physical?
8:45 - Second Hand Margins
Sources: pastebin.com/DwpmWtNM
