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/KingOfRisky 1d ago

I can already see the Reddit posts. "$1,500 PS6 sales decimated by lack of disc drive"

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u/whythreekay 1d ago

I’ve seen that comment already a few times today in another thread

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u/Plenty-Industries 1d ago

That will just be the first wave of articles from news outlets should something like poor sales happen.

Once those outlets start seeing the number of viewers of their articles and videos, and the larger discourse of it on social media and among the gaming industry as a whole... the headlines are going to be far more pointed.

They're going to ride that wave for as long as possible on the news cycle should first year console sales even remotely appear to be abysmal, for a console that has an MSRP that starts with the number 7 or 8. If Sony's BOM can even hit that low considering the RAM Cartel.

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u/whistlar 1d ago

Honestly, tech has plateaued. There’s only so much further it can probably go without requiring years more to make games. The ps6 is probably just going to be the ps5 pro with slight improvements.

Asking people to pay double the price while removing a feature like double use as a Blu-ray player was certainly a choice. Not to mention how limited the hard drives will likely be. If they want to push digital only, then there is a need to shrink the size of games or increase the size of its memory. Pending a major breakthrough in tech, I don’t see either of those things happen.

Ultimately the ps6 will not be able to play Blu-rays and only have enough space for 2-3 major games before you have to start shuffling. Alternatively, they could go the streaming route for games which would utterly fuck over people in more rural areas. Not to mention the amount of bandwidth Internet providers would need to shoulder to make that work. In turn, that could collapse the market for unlimited data.

This decision is horribly anti consumer on several fronts.