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Re:Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games... by techwizrd on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:10AM (#48747121)
They've also been pushing digital-only PS5s and PS5 Pro so there are fewer reasons to get a disk if you have no disk drive. They have created the problem that they are "solving."
Re:Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games... by tacticalturtle on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:16AM (#48747227)
Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you:

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr...

They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just customers didn’t choose physical media.