Sony Reportedly Didn’t Keep Its Publishers & Business Partners In The Loop About Its Plans To Kill Physical Media On PlayStation

Sony’s decision to cease production of physical game discs on PlayStation was shocking enough, but the console maker apparently didn’t bother keeping its publisher and business partners in the loop over its decision.

That’s according to sources speaking with High Chaos Run on condition of anonymity, who revealed that Sony kept details of its plans for a digital-only future from its partners. The announcement last week shocked the industry and was met with immediate backlash on Sony’s social accounts, with the company having only just returned to them after five days of absence.

An executive from a major AAA publisher told the site, “Despite our seemingly close working relationship with PlayStation we weren’t informed that this was happening. It’s only hitting us now that we may be out of jobs sooner rather than later.”

Elsewhere, an investor revealed that operations for PlayStation’s Indian branch were negotiating deals with local distributors and retailers to invest in having more than 100 brick-and-mortar stores exclusively for PlayStation by 2028.

“Why would we even work with PlayStation let alone invest a couple of crores [for those outside of India, 1 crore = INR 10 million] on a store when they won’t be selling discs,” the investor commented. “What’s worse is: PlayStation India didn’t even tell us this was happening before it went public, but kept asking us to put money in all the same. They didn’t know either.”

In wake of Sony’s news, analyst firm Ampere stated that this ‘almost certainly guarantees‘ that PS6 will be release in 2028, despite previous rumours that have hotly tipped the new console for late 2027. Former Sony Worldwide Studios chairman, Shawn Layden, recently weighed in on the topic, where he suggested that “it’s just too prohibitively expensive to stamp out discs.”

[Source – High Chaos Run]