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Sony Admits It Hears Angry PlayStation Fans on Disc Death, yet Goes Forward and Says the Decision Won’t Hurt Business

A stack of blue, unbranded PlayStation discs is displayed in front of a large PlayStation logo as Sony continues with its stance.

Today’s Sony Q1 FY 2026 earnings call had one main focus for PlayStation gamers: how the company would respond to the vehement online backlash fans have shown against its decision to stop making discs from January 2028. Well, despite all the Change.org petitions and various social media campaigns, it doesn’t seem like they are swaying one bit. Sony CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Lin Tao addressed the topics in the call, as reported by Kotaku, and despite acknowledging the reaction, the plan is to “cautiously go forward”. There are various reasons we made this decision, the biggest being that the digitalization […]

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