Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

blog.playstation.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 833 posts

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#201

Post by Teever »

mghackerlady wrote: post #122
phire wrote: post #23

With this news, I have to wonder how much longer bluray will live. Will we continue seeing new bluray releases of movies and TV shows for decades, or are their days numbered? The loss of console gaming presumably removes a guaranteed revenue source that was keeping Bluray pressing plants alive. Sales of DVDs and Bluray have been declining for years [1] [3] . Some people have been excited pushing the news that UHD blu…

I honestly doubt they'll stop. Sony is a Japanese company, and they seem to still enjoy buying blurays

But is there enough of a market for blu-rays of newer western releases in Japan to keep the entire production and distribution chain alive around the rest of the world?

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#202

Post by j45 »

One huge downside for this is allowing kids to understand how things work.

A digital delivery world does not teach the same way as children learning to put a DVD into a player, hitting play, and understanding how things get somewhere.

Physical game disks, were also about community, gathering.

This is surprising because Sony obsessed over the isolation it was creating when it released the walkman.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#203

Post by Uvix »

Hamuko wrote: post #47
OuterVale wrote: post #4

Shutting down the stores on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, too. https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playsta... Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745476

This is why I will not be buying a PlayStation 6. I've had my Steam account for 20 years (21 come October) and I can still download every single thing I've ever bought there. Why should I invest in buying PS6 games when they're gonna be made obsolete by Sony?

You can still download games for PS3 and Vita after they stop selling them. It’s no different from how Steam no longer sells some titles it used to.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#204

Post by artisinal »

antisthenes wrote: post #143
fennecfoxy wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And also quality. I wouldn't think that the copy of some movie Netflix is streaming to me will be 60-100GB over the duration of the movie. Not to mention when their services have issues and you're watching 5-10 minutes of low quality content until it settles and snaps up to full (streaming) quality.

What's kind of an annoying side effect of this is that you have all this fancy new display tech, like quantum dot LED (marketing term, but w/e), or OLED, but it's all pointless because you're just watching it with crappy compression, negating the quality gains.

The football World Cup 2026 is being broadcast in 1080p with washed out colors. Yet every shop was advertising 4K OLED for the best experience of watching the matches.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#205

Post by criddell »

CM30 wrote: post #165

Well, if Nintendo and Microsoft go the same route (and sadly, I see that being almost inevitable at some point), that's probably the end of my interest in gaming as a whole. I generally refuse to 'rent' or 'license' things on a temporary basis, and have decided in this generation that every game I'll get for Switch 2 will be a physical game on cart version, without exception. And the reasons for that are pretty simpl…

I'm guessing you know this already, but I thought it's worth saying - some Switch 2 carts only contain a game key and not the actual game.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#206

Post by j45 »

0x457 wrote: post #197

I never understood why disc versions of current gent console exists at all. Don't @ me about internet speeds: even if game does come on a disc, day 1 patches got out of hand before this generation was launched or in works.

If the console is diskless, it will be the last console I ever buy from that company. Sucks to say that about Sony but this is an incredibly out of touch move, that will always linger in the back of gamers minds that it could be tried again in the future if rolled back.

Disc consoles are superior in nearly every way:

- Disc consoles also have a hard drive, best of both worlds.

- You own the physical game. You don't own the digital version, just a license to it, which can be revoked, and deleted.

- You can trade games in 2 seconds.

- People can collect and play hundreds of games over the years on an moments notice, not waiting to download something. Games do try to compete to have the most of the players time, but it's not how all gamers play.

- Patches are normal for all games, and patches are usually smaller sizes than the entire game.

- Vintage is kind of popular now. None of those vintage systems, the original PS1/2/3/4 or Nintendos would be able to be experienced easily or at all if the physical media still didn't exist and survive. Digital platforms disappear when the system is EOL. Emulators can help, but it's a specialty and niche crowd. Handing a Nintendo to kids is something else.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#207

Post by antiloper »

accrual wrote: post #31

> Sony's announcement follows Rockstar's announcement that Grand Theft Auto 6 will come with a download code in a box rather than a physical disc. It's a move that most notably stamps out second-hand reselling of a game. This is the big point for me. If one buys a digital PlayStation game there's virtually no easy way to transfer it to another owner or sell it like one could do in past console generations. There will…

> There will always be modding and ways to play game dumps

There won't because advances in defensive cybersecurity have made it so that software exploits are extremely rare (if they exist at all), and modern chips contain hardware defenses against electrical attacks like voltage glitching.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#208

Post by integricho »

0x457 wrote: post #197

I never understood why disc versions of current gent console exists at all. Don't @ me about internet speeds: even if game does come on a disc, day 1 patches got out of hand before this generation was launched or in works.

Because Sony and all digital publishers with the exception of GOG are lying thieves. This is just another step in getting rid of ownership, and we are too naive and passive to stand up against it. Physical copies are a must to retain any sense of ownership over purchased games. If this is done, it must be forbidden to show "Purchase" on playstation store as that implies ownership,which it will never be. Also just look at the parallel issue that happened exactly these days with Sony deleting purchased movies from libraries. The same will happen with games. This is legalized theft.

Re: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

#209

Post by tapoxi »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #178

I have a PS4pro; technically I also already own a PS5 (kid-brother arrangement; not currently in my possession). When he gets his PS6, I'll get my PS5 back... then still keep the PS4 (always been offline: RDR2; GTA5; &c). If Sony doesn't offer GTA6 on disc, offline: I'll sell the PS5, too. I just got a 5070Ti, so it's probably back to PC-MasterRace I'll go... Reasons like this [Sony's 2028 disc-stop] are exactly why…

Rockstar has already announced there's no disk for GTA 6, if you buy a physical copy it's just a download code.
Post reply on HN