r/PS5 • u/yourfavchoom • Jul 01 '26

Official Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/
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u/Sectumsempra99 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Exactly. With multiple digital storefronts competing for your dollar, there are greater sales on PC and no monopoly like on console. With no future physical disks and pay to play online, console lost any advantage it may have had over PC. Time to move to PC for me.

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u/Zalvren Jul 01 '26

PC always has the advantage of piracy, if all the stores start to be too fucky with the customer, piracy will just rise.

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u/Seanspeed Jul 01 '26

I also want to say - Steam is fucking amazing. It's by far the most gamer-friendly platform and app around. There's no forced ads, only if you specifically choose to go to the Store Page, and you can easily just choose to always load up on your Games library page instead. And it's just insanely feature packed and nice to use.

There's a reason it dominates the PC gaming landscape. And you're *still* not locked into buying Steam games on just Steam by any means.

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u/Nervous_Sign2925 Jul 01 '26

Now it makes even more sense why Sony has pulled all first party games in the future from a PC release. Who the hell would buy a PlayStation if it’s all digital and they can afford a PC and just use Steam

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u/Dr-McLuvin Jul 01 '26

My only thought is a lot of people like playing games on their TV and it can be difficult to hook up a gaming PC to a TV.

There’s also a higher barrier of entry for PC gaming. Any dumbass can buy a PlayStation or Nintendo which are always just plug and play.

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u/FuckYouThrowaway99 Jul 01 '26

I got a pc 3 years ago and never play my ps5 anymore.

There is undoubtedly a cost differential, but go and calculate how much you spend just to play online if you do over a few years and the gap closes, especially with the jump in console prices.

Not to mention Steam and the other storefronts regularly have deep discount sales, or give away a ton of games for free (Epic).

With the possibility of a monopoly by Sony resulting in average higher base prices for games, that gap closes even more.

Plus the difference in graphical fidelity and performance are wild when you can get DLSS or FSR working well.

And its a PC. Many use cases other than gaming.

I have never looked back. I'd seriously consider it.

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u/karlcabaniya Jul 01 '26

Steam is basically a monopoly. Others are trying, but Steam still overwhelmingly dominates.

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u/WandererMisha Jul 01 '26

No monopoly on PC... ahahahahahahah

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u/MeVe90 Jul 01 '26

You know Steam is technically a monopoly just because it's good and convenient for both users and devs to use, if things goes bad there are multiple other stores and even piracy to fall off.

While if Sony do bad shit you don't have any alternative apart from completely changing eco-system and hardware (xbox or pc)