Petition to Save Physical PlayStation Games Hits 125k Signatures and Counting
The change.org campaign says physical discs support jobs, ownership and preservation as Sony faces backlash over a 100% digital shift.
- Sony sparked significant backlash last week after announcing it will end physical video game discs on PlayStation consoles starting in 2028, drawing criticism from retailers, developers, and comedians alike.
- Digital game sales on Sony consoles surged from 13% in 2013 to almost 80% today, according to Ampere, as industry analyst Piers Harding-Rolls noted that digital margins far exceed physical retail.
- PNP Games, a Canadian independent retailer, launched a petition garnering over 115,000 signatures, while Jade Pearce of PNP Games warned the move threatens thousands of jobs in logistics and warehousing.
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Senior Director Sid Shuman stated the transition aligns with shifting consumer preferences, and the company's share price increased following the announcement, signaling financial market support.
- Ditching disc drives could make the upcoming PS6 cheaper to produce amid the ongoing RAMpocalypse, and experts argue the industry has largely moved on from physical media.
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For nearly three decades, PlayStation built a fundamental part of its history around an object that seemed inseparable from the experience of playing. From those black disks of the first console released in the nineties to the blue boxes of PlayStation 5, the physical format was much more than just a storage method: it was a property symbol. Buying a video game meant something concrete. There was a box, a cover, a record. There was an object tha…
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‘Don’t Kill The Disc’: More Than 120,000 Fans Rally Against Sony’s Push Away From Physical Games
Source: NurPhoto / Getty There was a time when buying a video game felt simple. You walked into a store, picked up the case, cracked open the plastic, popped the disc into your console and that was it. The game was yours. You could keep it on the shelf, trade it in, lend it to a friend, sell it later, or hold onto it forever like a time capsule from whatever era of life you were in when you first played it. But that era might be getting closer t…
Sony no longer wants to offer games on disks from 2028. Economically this is understandable. But it has a price for the cultural property video game.
Sony announced last week that it would be moving to digital-only game copies.
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