Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Sony is getting rid of physical disks in 2028, citing "trends".

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

Guess who wont be buying a ps6 lol

inb4: "who cares about games being digital, its the same thing"


This was five days ago

Bring back big boxes

Peak

Part of the issue is that physical disks are meaningless. The medium is too slow to play the game off of; PS5's optical drive reads at ~30 MB/sec. That's slower than most many people's internet connections, so it doesn't even save time copying to your drive. It's a factor of 200 slower than a good SSD. You aren't playing modern games off a low-cost spinning disc unless you want 60 second load times.

So, let's split the complaint. You don't need a physical disk. The only way they could even make that workable is through a rewritable medium with a connector rated for high numbers of insertion and removal. A CFExpress card might work, but market rate is like 80 bucks for 256GB. Even with economies of scale, you're doubling the price of the game for the physical card. Got it? Ok, no physical disk.

What you actually want is DRM-free (or close) media that can be shared or sold. Crying about discs makes it easy to ignore. Crying about usage limitations and always-on checks won't make the companies care, but it's at least a feasible request. Something like a collectible access key that handles real time decryption might be interesting, but good chance it ends up with Denuvo-tier performance implications due to a sloppy implementation.

It's complicated. People think a disc means ownership. When you bought crash bandicoot it was yours forever till you sold it. If you buy something digitally, well the server just goes offline, tough titty.

The laws are out of sync with tech.

I dont know where you were going with this.

Disc based games have installed content to the console drive since PS3 era for the reasons you've stated (theyre slow). This has nothing to do with that though.

In 20 years, I can put my stellar blade disc in my (hopefully still working, my wii-u, ps3, nintendo ds all still work, I take good care of my stuff) ps5 and play the game in its original version. I dont have to worry about "we deleted this game from our servers, its gone forever, you lost what you paid for".


Literally as far as possible from the truth as could be. But also not surprising that someone who deals with RMT (unless I'm mistaken and you dont do that anymore) would look at this strictly from a monetary resale value standpoint.

Your concerns are financial.
My concerns are "you will own nothing and be happy".

They're not my concerns, they're my attempt to look at the actual issue.

They sure seem DRM-related to me. Does it matter if you have a disc or a saved copy of data if you can play it offline? Does having a disc matter if the console decides it's outdated and can't be played without a server-side update?

A disc is a medium. DRM and always-online are the mechanisms that are used to prevent you keeping your game forever. You can have DRM on a game that has a disc and you can have preservability on a game that doesn't.

If the game is encapsulated in a single .exe or an encapsulated folder that's accessible with your level of knowledge and you can back it up however you want and play it, why would you care that it doesn't have a disc?

Even worse is running your own small business. Then not only are you self employed, you employ other people too.

It might be better if your business is big enough to have an accountant and an HR person but I have never been in that position so IDK.

Rockstar gave Sony cover to do this by not releasing a physical disk of GTA 6. I would expect Microsoft to follow suit. Disks were a dying breed, this just finishes them off. I switched to digital a few years ago so I won't even notice. Certainly not buying into the lolfearmongering.

It stopped being fearmongering when Sony took a huge chunk of purchased media right out of users' libraries. It's a legitimate concern with precedent. If you paid for something under the impression you'd have it for as long as you took care of your credentials/disc, it's wrong for a company to take it away.

Whether an individual is that bothered about a game becoming inaccessible 10 years after it was relevant is more subjective. I would be pretty irked if I couldn't play classics like Super Metroid again once in a while (due to nostalgia). I expect the same would be true of people growing up on the current generation of games. I'm fine with buying digital copies and knowing there's some chance that in the future they won't still be there, but it's probably partly influenced by how forgettable many of the current gen games are.

Like I said the other day, if you paid for something without reading the terms of service (that you agreed to), thats on you. Its all there in the fine print. I certainly do not worry about any of my games being deleted, some of which have been in my library for a decade.

Feels like sucking off corporations to me, but you do you. They're legally protected, sure. It's still rabidly anti-consumer to turn minor purchases like games or media into something that you can no longer own. It's also a great stepping stone to massive censorship if the ecosystem proceeds to a point where governments can just shut off problematic games or movies nationwide.

I can think of two games that were unplayable out of the box:
One of the tony hawks
And some xbox game from 2015ish, cant remember the name. Had a blackish grey cover theme, was a shooter type.

I guess 3 because Crimson Desert had a mandatory day 1 patch, but idk if anyone tested if it ran without it.

Like I said, I don't buy into the wanton fearmongering. I would be more concerned about price points but I understand the need to complain about things that hurt feelings.

it's not fearmongering, it's happening.

corps are going to start deleting more and more because it's unsustainable to hold it in perpetuity.

As long as the internet exists, it's "fine" cause you can never not pirate any media that has ever existed, but that's not really the same. 10 years from now though that might not be an option either, if they have their way.

Yea, pretty much. This made me go from being optimistic about everyone I meet to thinking everyone sucks until proven otherwise

Anyone notice he went from “thats a conspiracy” to “thats fearmongering”. I did lol

Anyways
Heres fearmongering:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/sony-erases-digital-content-from-libraries-were-reminded-we-dont-own-what-we-buy/
Poof bye

https://gamerant.com/nintendo-switch-cruis-n-blast-delisted-gone-why/
My understanding on this is if you have it downloaded, youre good. Cant buy or redownload it though. Poof bye

https://delistedgames.com/
Poof bye
You will own nothing and be happy

Deleting what, exactly? What should I be worried about getting deleted off my PS5 here in the US? Movies? Don't own any digital movies. Music? Nothing. That just leaves games. I look at my library and don't see any reason to worry. There are some fringe games I got for free from PS+ that I don't have any hours on, probably have never installed them. But the ones I paid for? Nah, not going anywhere.

Physical disks are finally going away. Doesn't mean anything. The gaming industry powers on.

What a *** re…oops, mentally deficient human

Got Eiryl and me on the same side of something

And hes just like “nah theyre both wrong, im right”

RA is gone from this corner of the internet, just saw he asked you have his account nuked.

His posts in the modding section will be missed

Even with piracy, some old media is hard to find, or hidden behind invite only or pay walls.

Been hoarding my pirated stuff for decades. Might be worth something one day.

Edit - looks like some threads got deleted too.

He doesnt want to risk getting 3 yrs in jail for wrongthink.

I doubt ffxiah dot com is on OPSECs radar though, but who knows. Wasnt Kaffy also from the UK?

Yeah, I don't care about Canadians. Or Brits. The Dutch are cool though. You still haven't made any sort of a point, by the way. So you certainly aren't "right" about anything. Thanks for reporting the news, though.

A shame his posts on the website won't be. I'm sure he will come back, he literally always does. Despite the many, many bans.

no he is banned from the site, at least that is how his discord post read.

I'm sure he deserved it. But again, it has happened before.

By his own request or cause it got a little political in the nuked slurps thread?

This page is a mess.

Im not sure what is going on.