{"id":780647,"date":"2026-07-04T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780647\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:47:11","slug":"how-sonys-playstation-disc-phaseout-resets-gaming-value-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780647\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sony&#8217;s PlayStation disc phaseout resets gaming value chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260704N PS5 Consumer electronics store Nikkei\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 5 game software on display at a consumer electronics retailer in Tokyo on July 3. (Photo by Ryo Sato)<\/p>\n<p>RYO SATO, KEIGO YOSHIDA and TOMOKA KODAMA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Sony Group has announced it&#8217;s game over for physical PlayStation games, marking a watershed moment for Japan&#8217;s gaming industry as the move could have far-reaching consequences for consumers, retailers and game publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 5 game software on display at a consumer electronics retailer in Tokyo on July 3. (Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,11665,192453,874,5905,276373,8713,276374,276372,61,54794],"class_list":["post-780647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chain","tag-disc","tag-gaming","tag-how","tag-phaseout","tag-playstation","tag-resets","tag-sonys","tag-technology","tag-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}