PlayStation has confirmed that, starting in 2028, it will no longer release physical copies of its games. There's a long list of reasons PlayStation is about to take this unpopular plunge, but the one that likely has board members salivating most is the potential profit to be made in an all-digital future.
One of the biggest reasons PlayStation is ditching physical releases is that most of its player base now buys their games digitally. PlayStation clearly wants 100 percent of its player base to buy digital copies over physical ones, though. That's because every time you choose digital over physical, the profit PlayStation makes on that sale doubles.
We can gleen that from PlayStation's FY2025 results, shared by TweakTown's Derek Strickland. The chart shows that, through FY2025, Sony shipped 70 million physical games. Comparatively, it shipped 248 million copies of digital games during that same 12-month period.
That alone demonstrates why PlayStation is keen to leave physical game production behind entirely, as only a little more than one in every five games it sells is physical. However, it's the dollar amounts attached to those annual sales numbers that really paint the full picture of why PlayStation's...
