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Sony’s PlayStation Disc Shutdown Draws Ubisoft’s Verdict, as CFO Bets Cheaper Digital Machines Beat the Used-Game Fallout

A PlayStation disc of Ubisoft's 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate' by Ubisoft in its blue case, featuring two characters and marked with an 'M Mature 17+' ESRB rating.

More than three weeks after the announcement, Sony’s decision to stop producing new PlayStation discs from January 2028 still reverberates throughout the industry as various developers and publishers react to it. Yesterday, it was Ubisoft’s turn. During the French publisher’s Q1 2026 earnings call, investors asked if Ubisoft execs were concerned it could create a “demand headwind” as people could not rely on the used market anymore. However, Frédérick Duguet, Chief Financial Officer at Ubisoft, claimed that there won’t be much of a difference, at least from their point of view: What we saw on the PC is that it […]

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