PlayStation is still killing physical discs by January 2028, but the death blow isn’t coming as fast as many believe.
Two months after Sony reported repurposing its last disc-making plant, the company’s disc-making division says a report about how much disc production will be cut is exaggerated.
An unnamed Sony DADC spokesperson told Game journalist Brian Crecente that production will be cut by only 10 percent, not 90 percent as once believed.
“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 told Crecente.
The Verge did reach out for clarification on the matter and whether the restructuring was still happening at the division and whether the 300 employees at the plant would stay on to work on microlenses, as first reported by ORF Austria, but they nor Crecente got any more information.
According to The Verge, it may take Sony longer to transition to all-digital because it will continue to let video game publishers “place re-orders for existing PlayStation disc games.”
Physical Discs Are Still Going Away
But don’t get your hopes up because it’s still not looking good for physical discs.
Per The Verge:
Even if PlayStation discs stick around longer than we thought, the future isn’t looking good for the concept of video game ownership. Several major game publishers are conspicuously missing from Microsoft’s disc-to-digital initiative, and Sony keeps giving gamers reason to believe it doesn’t respect the idea of ownership at all.
Most recently, Sony made the breathtakingly blunt legal argument that “reasonable consumers” couldn’t possibly believe they own a game after they buy it — because if they truly owned a game, how could multiple copies exist at a time?
That all-digital future is coming slowly, but make no mistake, it’s still happening.