A petition urging Sony PlayStation to proceed producing bodily video games has reached greater than 165,000 signatures, however Sony is selecting stoic silence over a response.
A Change.org petition began by the CEO of a small Canadian retailer with three places – PNP Video games – has now reached 165,640 signatures on the time of writing.
“On July 1, 2026, Sony introduced it should finish manufacturing of bodily discs for all new PlayStation video games beginning January 2028,” the petition assertion reads. “New video games will probably be bought digitally, or as a field containing solely a obtain code, with no disc inside.
“A disc is an actual sport you personal. You’ll be able to lend it, commerce it, resell it, present it, gather it, or go it all the way down to your youngsters. A field with solely a obtain code shouldn’t be the identical factor. It’s a digital license in plastic packaging. You don’t personal it. You might be renting entry that may be revoked, and folks have already had bought motion pictures deleted from their libraries and video games pulled from sale weeks after launch.”
As a bodily retail location, it’s within the curiosity of PNP Video games for bodily merchandise to proceed being launched. It added: “That is additionally about jobs. Bodily video games assist a complete business that an all-digital future quietly erases: retailers, distributors, producers, warehousing and logistics, the pre-owned and trade-in market, and the collector and preservation neighborhood. That’s hundreds of jobs and numerous small companies.”
The petition has acquired numerous feedback and movies from signees desirous to see Sony proceed to supply bodily discs for his or her consoles.
“I’m a bodily media gamer, and I refuse to assist any gaming firm that tells me I don’t have the choice to personal bodily media,” says Stephen, one in every of hundreds of signatories. “I hope Sony will reverse this determination, but when not, then they may stop to get enterprise from me after January 2028.”
Sony goes quiet because the business reacts
Unusually, the PlayStation X (previously Twitter) account has gone silent after the announcement.
The account would often submit and share content material associated to approaching video games on a near-daily foundation, however hasn’t posted something because the July 1 announcement that bodily disc manufacturing could be discontinued.
Sony later instructed builders and publishers that they’d nonetheless be capable to make discs, however just for older video games launched previous to January 2028.
The business at massive has been reacting with dismay on the loss of life of bodily PlayStation media. Hideo Kojima mentioned he finds the scenario “actually unhappy.”
