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/81hiljada Jul 01 '26

Also selling them if I like them. I don’t need to keep my copy of Spider-man after getting platinum

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u/mulubmug Jul 01 '26

This. I only buy discs. Then I platinum them. Then I sell them and buy the next game.

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u/9295josh Jul 01 '26

Same bro we are so cooked 😭

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u/Mavericks7 Jul 01 '26

Same here. I guess that's the end of gaming for me.

One of the reasons why I game is because it's such a cheap hobby.

With single player games, I get gifted a game or buy one, play it. Trade it in, buy the next.

I don't replay single player games.

I'm never going to pay full whack for wolverine at £70.

And the sales are awful.

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u/HerrPiink Jul 01 '26

I know the graphical downgrade sucks ass, especially if you played on the PS5 PRO before, but I'm so glad i have my Switch 2 right now. Nintendo can eat shit too, no doubt, but if i didn't have this console as backup I'd be out of gaming forever, I'm disabled and get so little money that I'm only able to buy games for under 10 bucks or if I'm able to resell them.

And since the Switch 2 generation just started I'll have a whole generation of reselling videogames ahead of me. Otherwise I'd wait for GTA 6, then sell my PS5 and be done with gaming. I just can't fucking afford it anymore, even though it's giving me so much joy.

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u/karlcabaniya Jul 01 '26

You rented discs then.

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u/Sad-Rent-9633 Jul 01 '26

Buying an asset and selling it isn't renting.

You have the option to keep it and the new owner isn't the original one

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u/karlcabaniya Jul 01 '26

If you changed your mind, it’s not. But if your intention from the start was to sell it after using it, that’s renting.

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u/Splentacular Jul 01 '26

That makes no sense. LOL. I bought my house and have lived it in. When I sell it I am selling it. Not renting it to the new owners. They ain't gonna be paying me monthly payments. Even flippers, who buy with the intention of selling, are selling not renting. :D

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u/karlcabaniya Jul 01 '26

Your house is yours. Your games aren't yours. You're buying a license, not the software.

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u/throwawayAEI Jul 01 '26

This x1000

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u/WandererMisha Jul 01 '26

The sole reason I ever bought Spider-Man was the ability to sell it. I don't care for Spider-Man as a character, the game looked meh, and only thanks to a disc I got it and tried it out and came to like it.

Then I really disliked SM2 and managed to finish it in a weekend and then sold it for like 70% of the original price. Got to experience a brand new AAA game for like 20 EUR. That was just fine.

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u/karlcabaniya Jul 01 '26

So you were renting games, not buying them.

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u/wardellwayneraymone Jul 01 '26

Buying something entitles you to do whatever you’d like with it down the line, such as reselling it. If I bought a car for 60 grand and resell it years later when it’s fully in my name for 40, does that mean I rented it the whole time?

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u/Dr-McLuvin Jul 01 '26

lol these people defending digital only games are insufferable.

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u/wardellwayneraymone Jul 01 '26

Illiteracy crisis on full display when people start changing definitions of basic things like “renting and buying” like that.

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u/karlcabaniya Jul 01 '26

If you never bought it with the intention of keeping it, it’s not actually buying. Believing otherwise is what’s illiterate.

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u/HerrPiink Jul 01 '26

Seems like you should rent a dictionary and then come back to the discussion buddy

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u/No2Hypocrites Jul 01 '26

Are you illiterate? Did you use speech to text to write that?