Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says he doesn’t assume Sony’s choice to cease releasing video games on discs can have a significant impression on the video games trade.
Throughout an earnings name following the discharge of its first quarter 2026-27 gross sales, Guillemot was requested on the finish of a Q&A session whether or not he believed a disc-free future on PlayStation was going to be extra constructive or unfavorable for the trade.
Guillemot replied that there have been professionals and cons related to Sony‘s choice, however that he didn’t assume it will be massively disruptive.
“What we noticed on the PC is that it helped to develop the market,” Guillemot replied. “There’s additionally some strain for the longer term on the price of machines, and with the ability to be solely digital will assist to have a extra accessible machine, I’d assume.
“As you mentioned, there are pluses and minuses, however I believe it won’t disturb the trade an excessive amount of.”
It has now been three and a half weeks since Sony introduced that bodily disc video games will likely be discontinued for PlayStation consoles from January 2028, and the choice continues to obtain backlash throughout a spread of channels.
New movies posted on the official PlayStation YouTube channel (together with trailers for indie video games that weren’t getting bodily releases anyway) proceed to have their feedback sections flooded with complaints or jokes about not having discs, and most are nonetheless getting extra dislikes than likes whatever the content material.
A petition on Change.org to get Sony to reverse its choice at present has round 340,000 signatures, however it seems unlikely that it’ll have any impression, as the corporate’s largest manufacturing website in Austria is already getting ready to maneuver away from manufacturing discs.
Sony has has invested round €30 million in new tools designed for making optical microlenses on the website as an alternative, and has already began coaching its employees to work on it.
