Sony Isn’t Retiring Physical Games As Quickly As Many Think

An unnamed Sony DADC spokesperson told Game journalist Brian Crecente that production will be cut by only 10 percent, not 90 percent as once believed. But don't get your hopes up because it's still not looking good for physical discs. NurPhoto / PlayStationPlayStation is still killing physical discs by January 2028, but the death blow isn’t coming as fast as many believe. Two months after Sony reported repurposing its last disc-making plant, the company’s disc-making division says a report about how much disc production will be cut is exaggerated. An unnamed Sony DADC spokesperson told Game journalist Brian Crecente that production will be cut by only 10 percent, not 90 percent as once believed. “To clarify and avoid any misleading information: in that statement, Dietmar anticipated an overall product volume decline by 10 percent, not a decline down to 10 percent,” the spokesperson told Crecente. The Verge did reach out for clarification on the matter and whether the restructuring was still happening at the division and whether the 300 employees at the plant would stay on to work on microlenses, as first reported by ORF Austria, but they nor Crecente got any more information. Accor...