Sony is \u201ccautiously\u201d moving forward with plans to stop producing discs for PlayStation games as of January 2028, CFO Lin Tao said through an interpreter today.<\/p>\n
During an earnings call, Tao said there are \u201cvarious reasons\u201d for Sony\u2019s decision, with the biggest being that the \u201cdigitalization of [content] overall has been progressing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we think about the future, and we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion. And we\u2019re going to cautiously move this forward,\u201d Tao said.<\/p>\n
Sony\u2019s announcement this month has drawn backlash from gamers and big<\/a> names<\/a> in the gaming industry who question a future in which they don\u2019t own PlayStation games but instead buy licenses, which can be revoked<\/a>. There\u2019s also concern that some games will become hard to find if Sony eventually closes its digital storefronts.<\/p>\n Tao acknowledged that \u201cpeople have strong views\u201d about the end of PlayStation discs.<\/p>\n \u201cGames are loved by many people,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a form of entertainment that\u2019s loved by people. It\u2019s connected to people\u2019s fond memories in many cases. We understand those emotions. We want to consider that, and in the future digital ecosystem how\u2026 we engage the gamers is something that we would like to continue to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n The change in strategy reflects how Sony sells games today. In its fiscal year ending on March 31, digital downloads accounted for 78 percent of Sony\u2019s full-game unit purchases. In 2008, 100 PlayStation games sold over 100,000 physical units in the first half of the year, compared to seven in the first half of 2026, according to data shared this month<\/a> by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella. More broadly, physical game sales have declined from 297 million units in the US from June 2008 through June 2009 to 37 million in the past year, Circana\u2019s data says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony is \u201ccautiously\u201d moving forward with plans to stop producing discs for PlayStation games as of January 2028,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-795974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}