Sony today announced it’s starting the clock on the production of physical discs, as the company is set to adopt a full digital marketplace at the start of 2028.
All new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting January 2028, Sony revealed in a blog post, putting an end to an over three decade-long tradition starting with the 1994 release of the original PlayStation.
Sony notes that while you’ll still be able to buy games at third-party retailers, these will be offered in digital formats only. It also won’t affect games scheduled to release in physical formats prior to the January 2028 cutoff, the company says.
“This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs,” Sony maintains. “This transition will enable us to align more closely with how most of our community prefers to access and play games today.”
Although PSVR 2 has been essentially neglected by Sony shortly after its 2023 launch, the headset still gets a steady stream of both digital and physical disc releases, with the most recent of which being I, Robot, which released by Strictly Limited Games in April 2026.
Notably, producers like Strictly Limited Games, Limited Run Games, and Perp Games released many of the physical editions for PSVR 2, making for around 72 games released in total according to a Reddit thread dedicated to tracking physical releases. This comes in contrast to PS5’s over 1,000 physical discs released since its initial release in 2020.
This follows Rockstar Games’ decision to forgo a physical disc release for the highly-anticipated GTA VI, which is set to arrive this November on the PlayStation Store and in stores as an empty ‘collectors edition’ disc case with supplied digital download code.
