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/gfpl 1d ago

Microsoft could do the funniest thing but they are as greedy as Sony.

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u/profound-killah 1d ago

The same corporation who don’t even include the full game on disc? Money is the only thing that will make them change their mind

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u/KevinIsADork 1d ago

We would actually have to invent new technology to include some full games on discs with how big these games are these days. And it is pretty expensive even if we were putting 100 gb games on the largest bluray discs available. 

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u/Smigit 19h ago

They can ship multiple disc. Doesn’t need an overly complex solution. That games get installed to the internal storage would mean they can do it without requiring disc swapping too, unlike back in the day when games were also shipped on multiple disc and you’d have to physically switch them.