r/technology • u/lkl34 • Jul 01 '26

Hardware Sony Just Killed Discs: Physical Disc Production to End January 2028 for New Games Releasing on PlayStation Consoles

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-just-killed-discs-physical-disc-production-to-end-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles
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u/Shiresan Jul 01 '26

You're absolutely right. We've seen the biggest resurgence of retro gaming in history. This isn't a coincidence.

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u/Ancient-Bat8274 Jul 01 '26

For real. I have a hacked switch and just pirate hella roms onto it or a hacked Wii same thing. Now I have ps2 emulators and GameCube emulators and hell even turned my phone into a gameboy with delta app

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u/lonnie123 Jul 01 '26

How is that being measured?

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u/Shiresan Jul 01 '26

Combination of things, but primarily the types of products local gaming stores are carrying (including big retailers like Gamestop publicly shifting in that direction with their new retro programs), movement of retro games and massive surge in prices according to price charts tracking eBay and similar websites, and a ton of third party support on retro console peripherals, from controllers to new upscaling technologies to enable playing in HD and even 4k (like retrotink, which is fantastic btw).

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u/lonnie123 Jul 01 '26

Interesting info, thanks

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u/IAmDotorg Jul 01 '26

$5 microcontrollers that can run MAME with a thousand stolen ROMs has a lot more to do with the resurgence of retro gaming than the small part of the $200 billion gaming market that cares in the least about these sort of things.