Sony isn’t phasing out discs quite as quickly as we thought
Sony has clarified that its disc-making division will see a 10 percent decline in production by 2028, rather than a 90 percent drop as previously reported. Despite this, the company continues to shift toward digital-only gaming and has faced criticism for its legal stance regarding consumer ownership of digital games.
Why it matters
This highlights the ongoing tension between physical media preservation and the industry's push toward digital-only ecosystems, which limits consumer ownership rights.
Sony isn’t backing away from its decision to kill the video game disc. But Sony isn’t shutting down production as quickly as we thought, either. Two months after reports that Sony’s last discmaking plant was already being repurposed, the company’s discmaking division now says that one widely reported detail was wrong.
Originally, it sounded like the division’s president said the Thalgau plant would produce 90 percent fewer discs in 2028 — but the reality is it will only produce 10 percent fewer discs in 2028, an unnamed Sony DADC spokesperson told Game journalist Brian Crecente.
“To clarify and avoid any misleading information: in that statement Dietmar anticipated an overall product volume decline by 10 percent, not a decline down to 10 percent,” the spokesperson said.
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