Sony May Have Been Digging the Grave of Physical PlayStation Games for Years.
Sony has invested €30 million to retrain 300 workers and turn the plant into a microlens facility as disc production winds down.
- Sony is repurposing its Thalgau, Austria factory—the company's last remaining physical media plant—to produce optical microlenses, following the July 1 announcement that it will end physical PlayStation game production by January 2028.
- Management at Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation revealed a €30 million investment in the conversion, a shift planned well before the announcement, according to Markus Streibl, head of Micro Optics at Sony DADC.
- Retraining for the factory's 300 employees is underway under CEO Dietmar Tanzer, as the Thalgau plant currently manufactures 600,000 discs daily and expects output to drop to 10 percent by 2028.
- While the company has started "test operations" for microlenses, Tanzer couldn't confirm if all 300 jobs would remain secure in the near future, despite intending to keep the number as close to 300 as possible.
- Sony plans mass production of optical microlenses as early as 2027 for sensors and headsets, though some gamers expressed frustration, with one user noting, "we literally own nothing now," regarding the shift away from physical media.
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Sony may have been digging the grave of physical PlayStation games for years.
Sony’s disc factory has been retraining its workforce to handle microlenses, suggesting the plan to phrase out physical game discs was in the works for a while before the announcement.
End of an era — the historic PlayStation factory that manufactured 24 billion gaming discs is already being turned into a micro-optics lab, just days after Sony announced its digital push
Sony is already repurposing its Austrian disc-making factoryIt's the only physical media plant of Sony's that's leftExisting staff will be retained to work with micro opticsWe're still reeling from Sony's announcement earlier this week that it will stop releasing PlayStation games on physical discs from the start of 2028 — and now there's news that Sony's last remaining physical media factory is already being repurposed.According to ORF Salzburg…
Sony is stopping disc production for PlayStation games, so only factory that makes CDs for it will now retrain 300 employees to manufacture…
Tech News News: Sony's last remaining PlayStation disc factory is already moving on to something else. The Thalgau plant in Austria makes 600,000 discs a day, half of.
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