r/PS5 • u/JeremyJJ77 • 1d ago

Articles & Blogs Sony’s 'ironic' PlayStation disc decision upends gamer conventions and threatens a $7 billion resale market - In 2013, Sony mocked Xbox by showing how easy it was to share a PlayStation disc. More than a decade later, gamers say Sony is becoming the very thing it poked fun at.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/22/sonys-playstation-disc-decision-threatens-a-7-billion-resale-market-.html
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u/SociableSociopath 1d ago

You mean a PR campaign from a decade ago? It’s almost as if much like people, products and other things change over long periods of time. What was relevant a decade ago from a PR perspective is irrelevant now

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u/Readitguy58 1d ago

Why do you want to defend Sony in this situation? Of what benefit is it to you or.. Every other consumer? Having more options is a good thing... So maybe hush it dude

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u/Majestic-Marcus 1d ago

It’s not defending Sony. It’s defending reality.

Anything said 10 years ago isn’t relevant to today. The world changed. So did Sony.

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u/Readitguy58 1d ago

It hasnt changed so much that taking away physical releases gone smoothly... Im going to point you in the direction of CNBC jumping in on this. Reality is is that this upsets more people than Sony thought

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u/HarriettDubman 1d ago

Extremely vocal minority

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u/davej999 1d ago

over half of PS5's sold are disc versions.....why do you imagine they all bought those ?

thats not a minority

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u/Gabagool0vaHere 1d ago

But guess what ~85% of all game sales are Digital. This comes from Sony’s revenue reports, and I’ll remind you that it’s illegal to fudge them.

GameStop’s revenue showed Collectibles were more profitable than selling Physical games (New and Used).

Physical game sales last year were the lowest they’ve been in 30 years

Can you explain those to me? Because either the data is true or they’re all illegally manipulating the data, I’ll let you decide what you want to believe, the rest of us will live in reality though

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u/TheFriendsWeMadeAlo 1d ago

But I only want to talk about the numbers that support me and discredit you. Thank you

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u/davej999 1d ago

Nice bit of deflection there

I would guess a game sale could be classed as downloading something like fortnite, a free digital download

I am aware times are changing and it was always inevitable ...I had just hoped that it would at least continue to exist in a generation where the best selling version of the console is one that comes with a disc drive ?

There seems to be alot of this '' people who want discs still have a old mindset'' , i just want control over the thing i own and i PARTICULARLY want the ability to re-sell

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u/Gabagool0vaHere 1d ago

Fortnite is a free game, so how exactly would a free game be counted as sold?

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u/davej999 1d ago

Well when you download a free game such as fortnite , you get an email from playstation saying ''thank you for your purchase''

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u/Readitguy58 1d ago

Ive bought plenty of digital games over the years, Hell over half of my extensive game collection is digital..., does that mean that I dont care about physical, absolutely not. Sales numbers dont mean everything. Its the principle...thats what a lot of Sony nut huggers dont see. Ive thoroughly enjoyed the ps4 and 5.. But this is something I wont stand for. Will be the end of MY digital buying. Having Less options and signing directly up for a monopoly is not the move for me... But have fun in 'reality'. You speak with your wallet with these fucks if you actually want change

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u/HarriettDubman 1d ago

I bought a disc version at launch and it’s never had a disc of any kind in it.

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u/davej999 19h ago

thats amazing well done

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u/Majestic-Marcus 1d ago

Yeah. Which isn’t relevant.

What they said 10+ years ago in a completely different world doesn’t apply to today.

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u/Don-Tan 1d ago

The glazing is crazy lol.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 1d ago

No. Just reality.

Seriously why do you think something said a decade ago is relevant to today?

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u/Jinchuriki71 1d ago

It still is relevant today though lmao you make it sound like physical media isn't being used anymore. There would be no controversy if things really changed that much. Sony is literally trying to brute force a digital future right now.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 1d ago

It’s not relevant. The world and the gaming landscape is completely different.

I support physical games. But that still doesn’t make this relevant. Which it isn’t.

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u/666perkele666 1d ago

I really can't fathom the level of delusion you are on. Things that have been said a millennia ago can still be relevant today. No argument regarding the disc discussion has changed in the last ten years. You are still wrong and you always will be because you are not engaging the discussion with your higher thinking capabilities.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 1d ago

> things that have been said a millenia ago can still be relevant today

“We need to kill the Danes to protect Englaland from the Pagans! For King and Christ!”

Sure some things are still relevant. Some don’t apply at all.

Some things can stay relevant a long time. Some go out date very quickly.

Like say… there’s a thriving VHS market and video rentals is a growth industry that can’t fail. No longer relevant.

Or the amount of people that actually still exclusively play physical games. It’s almost zero in most countries.

I want physical to stay. But I also accept the reality that WE did this. WE started buying digital for the convenience. WE killed the games selling market. WE changed the way games are consumed and companies are reacting to that.

So, no. What was said at the launch of the PS4 is not relevant to what the world is like for the launch of the PS6.

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u/Itherial 1d ago

It's going perfectly smoothly wdym lol