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This just confirms that we will not see PS6 until 2028

We get rid of their source of control over digital media (just completely obliterate it), they no longer have an incentive to *only* allow digital media, and we go back to people having the option between physical and digital. It's the only way.

welp, guess this will be the last generation i play! all good there's so much to catch up with on the infinite backlog www~

Now I imagine those who will comment on this with: it's better this way, since on the BD there is only a game key to download the game and that's it. (Bad times 😢)

Once they pull the trigger it can never be rebuilt once that infrastructure and industry is gone. Fucking insane.

That would be the best response to all of this. They're just asking for it at this point. No amount of their loyal console fan warriors are gonna stop how badly it'll backfire on them if/when that happens.

Damn…..this the end of an era bro. 😭

It's very clear from the comments that they did NOT read the room. I hope people fight HARD against this. Take it to the lawmakers. Take it to antitrust lawyers as well. This is completely killing off competition for game pricing and availability. It's killing off stores like GameStop.

At least consumers with common sense can take comfort in knowing they'll never have to buy a console newer than the PS4 generation moving forward. Granted, that excludes the average gamer and reply guy, but still.

Ends production in Jan 2028, could a company like iam8bit put a big order in Jan 2028 then spread those games out for PS5 over the year?

I really hope that DELTARUNE will get fully released before the deadline! Thankfully it will still get a physical release on Switch 1 & 2 for sure, but I would really like it to be available on an optical medium as well, since we are starting to see NAND flash-based things like 3DS game cards fail.

I think it is safe to say that we are all absolutely devastated by this. Sony is now certainly trying its best to shut down Blu-ray production entirely, so that films and music (admittedly most of the latter is on CD and even vinyl, but multi-channel music is only really on BD-A) will be gone too.