I think it unfortunately is. According to The Verge:mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2026 1:49 pmGames are huge now, and often sold without a disc at all. Some of them install at 200+ GB and they don't want to invest in 2-3 discs to accommodate that data. Would say that Playstation's decision isn't a harbinger of anything on the movie side, but maybe I'm just naïve.dwk wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2026 11:27 am Sony is phasing out physical discs for the PS by 2028, assuring that the next generation of video game machines will not have disc drives, so I am not sure that there is 6 years left in the ability to press discs.
The plant effectively shutting down physical disc operations means that the 300,000 discs that weren't for PlayStation will also go away, from my understandingThe Verge wrote:Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzburg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But since it’ll only be making 10 percent of that volume in 2028, it’s planning to retrain all 300 employees to work on optical microlenses instead.