Sony’s Plan to Kill Physical PlayStation Discs Faces Gamer Backlash

Gamers are planning a boycott called PSBlackout for the week of Aug. 23.

Sony is “cautiously” moving forward with plans to stop producing discs for PlayStation games as of January 2028, CFO Lin Tao said through an interpreter today. During an earnings call, Tao said there are “various reasons” for Sony’s decision, with the biggest being that the “digitalization of [content] overall has been

Sony responded to widespread criticism of its plan to discontinue games on discs in its latest earnings call.

Sony Says PlayStation Disc Backlash Not Making ‘Any Impact’ On Business  Forbes

Sony has received a lot of backlash from PlayStation fans since announcing that it's killing physical game disc production, but that hasn't swayed its decision. During Sony's latest earnings call, chief financial officer Lin Tao said that while the company "put in a lot of thought and time" when considering the opposit