Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

With this news, I have to wonder how much longer bluray will live. Will we continue seeing new bluray releases of movies and TV shows for decades, or are their days numbered? The loss of console gaming presumably removes a guaranteed revenue source that was keeping Bluray pressing plants alive. Sales of DVDs and Bluray have been declining for years [1] [3]. Some people have been excited pushing the news that UHD bluray sales increased in 2025, [2] but that ignores the fact that the total optical sales still dropped. [1] https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=... [2] https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=... [3] This article has a more complete graph: https://www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rise-fall-and-slight-r...

Discs are less convenient so people have slowly moved to digital sales. This worked even better for console manufacturers, cheaper to drop that disc reader, and the second hand market is effectively dead which increases new game sales. The side-effect most people didn't consider is that you never really own a digital copy. And the most relevant part is that you cannot transfer/sell a digital copy. For everything else around ownership I know I can count on Sony to still screw it up even with discs, like disabling a disc game with some online checks.

Sucks to see this right after the Studio Canal movie situation [1]. I won't be getting another PlayStation. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691346

Shutting down the stores on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, too. https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playsta... Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745476

This has not aged well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA