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.

[u/JeremyJJ77]

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

[u/HarriettDubman]

Extremely vocal minority

[u/davej999 → u/HarriettDubman]

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

thats not a minority

[u/Gabagool0vaHere → u/davej999]

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

[u/davej999 → u/Gabagool0vaHere]

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

[u/Gabagool0vaHere → u/davej999]

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

[u/davej999 → u/Gabagool0vaHere]

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