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Sony Ditches Discs, Leaving Nintendo to Save Physical Games

Sony’s 2028 disc cutoff could leave Nintendo as gaming’s last physical holdout, turning boxed games into a shrinking exception.

Key takeaways

  • Sony’s January 2028 PlayStation disc cutoff could leave Nintendo as the only major console maker still giving physical games real shelf space. The people most expo...
  • That is the signal in Circana analyst Mat Piscatella’s comments after Sony said it will stop producing physical discs for new PlayStation games in **January 20...
  • > “Sales of new physical video games have fallen every year since the late 2000s.”
  • That line matters more than the nostalgia debate. Sony’s move may feel sudden to players, but Piscatella frames it as the formal recognition of a market shift that alr...

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