As you have probably seen on your travels around the internet Sony has announced that it’s stopping physical video game releases starting January 2028. The news has not gone down well with PlayStation console owners, but it’s seems unlikely Sony will change course. FRVR has contacted its sources to find out how much difference there is in pricing between a physical PlayStation 5 disc and a Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge. They have discovered that a physical PlayStation 5 game is close to $6.50 to produce and a Nintendo Switch cartridge costs $12 to $15, with Nintendo Switch 2 cartridges being a little more expensive.
“Anonymous sources familiar to modern game production informed FRVR that the average cost of production for a physical PlayStation 5 game is somewhere close to $6.50, or around £5, in today’s climate for a standard release. For AAA games where hundreds of thousands of discs are pressed, this changes at scale, but costs are similar.”
Well then, we’ll pay for this not them. They’re just making another excuse for all this bst!!
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The all-digital future is here baby!
All you do is post comments that sparks debate. Just stop, man.
You have no life and cry over comments on this site 24/7 then if pushed far enough want to physically assault people over words you disagree with maybe take your own advice you fat middle aged loser
Dark Samus is an infamous troll here, often causing debates over poltics and junk. If I can prevent a war in these comments sections, then I will.
The main-character syndrome you have is insane lmao.
Are you seriously this much of a loser that you think it’s your job to intervene in online arguments?
They ain’t modding you bro lol.
Dang, your right.
Dark Samus has defenders it seems!
And why pray tell are you proud of this ?
Putin was right! Legalize piracy!
There has to be more variables to the pricing because I doubt they’d spend more money on manufacturing carts that are just going to be GKCs.
No physical, no PS6 purchase. Simple as that.
Physical been dead for a while in gaming they haven’t put games on discs since the PS3 era by PS4 it was basically key cards. Also people did this to themselves look at digital only GTA 6 numbers it shows people don’t care or the PS5 Slim I believe the disc drive on the slim needs a wifi connection to work. Biggest games are digital like Fortnite. Funny thing apparently now Xbox is working on a device to register disc games to digital license.
Not true. There are games with the full game on the disc; they just require you to download the game to the system FROM the disc. Demon’s Souls PS5 is fully on the disc and downloads to the system. It then updates if the console is online to remove the luck stat glitch because it breaks one of the new items and one of the weapons to one shot anything. Point being though, the launch version of the game IS on the disc unlike game key cards that require you to download it from the store.
Completely false. Doesitplay.org tracks this type of thing, and many games up to the modern era are 100% physical. Just played the dead Space remake, that’s 100% on disc.
What kind of nonsense are you spouting? Physical media aren’t dead—there’s still a demand for them.
Well that sucks for PlayStation fans. No more physical release. No PS6 physical games in stores. Very simple.
Not really look at GTA 6 it’s digital only and the sales for that are through the roof especially on PlayStation. Biggest games are all digital only.
I can see that gaming will no longer be part of my future. The destruction of gaming itself will be a good motivator to pursue other things like exercise and writing.
100% true and good for you
I really need to devote more time to my writing.
It’s a real shame that you seem to have a negative attitude toward video games.
I can’t possibly imagine cutting disc manufacturing is going to rake them in more money than all of the manufacturing fees they were getting from companies looking to have them made. Absolute definition of shooting yourself in the foot. Deflates a lot of my interest in even finishing the game in working on if its not going to be available in a physical format. Shitty times.
Games have not been physical since the PS3/360 era. Also yes cutting physical saves a ton in costs most movie/tv and music companies outsource to others to have it done under contracts where they get paid for someone else to take the risks. In gaming the closest thing is Limited Run but I’ve heard they take L’s with quality.
This is simply false. One glance over the website doesitplay.org disproves this. Also, nearly every Switch 1 game is fully physical, and that came out in 2017.
Listen, I buy the majority of my games digitally. Because of convenience and it’s just easier for me, lack of space for physical collections and all that. But from my perspective, this is a stupid decision. You’re basically forcing people to go all digital and that should never happen.
I think they’re betting on people being mad now but just accepting it eventually. Which very well could happen, because the Internet is fickle. But still I just don’t see the good in making this decision. It’s like they’re basically saying, to hell with gamers who like to buy physical. Not to mention, the sheer space that even just one game takes up, what is that going to mean for storage sizes on these systems. That’s going to be another problem especially even more so, if the price of storage keeps hiking up because of AI. It’s already at beyond ridiculous prices all around.
When I first saw this post on Instagram I was like there’s no way this is true. Yet here we are. I just don’t understand it.
Everyone is all digital and making physical costs too much also makes no sense in gaming the game is not on the disc and hasn’t been for over 10 years now. Hollywood is abandoing physical as well they don’t make it in house they normally pick up a licensing agreement where someone else takes the risk look Disney won’t release much of their stuff on physical anymore and Sony Pictures outsources their releases. Music industry is the same all in on stream numbers not album sales and physical copies are made by niche companies in limited amount. Theaters are the same soon they’ll be gone the internet killed them.
No physical, no purchase as easy as that for me
MBG and all the pony boomers throwing their tantrum also lying on Nintendo. Game key cards are no different to discs of the modern era, the PS4 era is where it began the discs had no game installed on them. If they want physical like the PS4/PS5 era support Nintendo they still give an option but they have some weird hatred for the company and PC gaming too. Music industry doesn’t do much physical they have partners who make the physical copies in limited amount and Hollywood also checking out of physical relying on third parties to do it instead not in house and under licensing agreements. These people are in some entitled delusional mindset funny thing they support Sony no matter what they bought digital only GTA 6, PS5 Pro, PS Plus, and any new third party PS5 game Sony collects 30% off no matter what but they somehow think they’ll cause change. You got us here you supported all these practices don’t be mad now.
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People bought a PS5 Pro they deserve no physical games they sell the thing with no drive you did this to yourself ponies and then worse with GTA 6 $100 digital only.
Every disc has a small print saying licence can be then away at anytime, games like the crew is proof of this. No one’s owned a game since the 1990s yet you cling to discs thinking you own them. You own the disc but not the license on it. I still own my 500gb of digital games on my 360 and still playing them despite 360 not having a store anymore. That’s game ownership not a disc with a license.
I’m with thewatcherx. Sony’s decision is not good at all, and I went full digital across the board: music, movies, AND games.
(Posted this on the Rhythm Heaven review by accident. 😭)