Sony has announced that its next major physical hardware release has been botched, with a delay without a release date, following the announcement that it would kill PlayStation discs and move to a digital-only model for its future systems.
The PlayStation 5 marks the end of an era for Sony, as it's the last model with a physical drive; disc drives will be discontinued in 2028. The writing has been on the wall for a long time, with Sony offering a digital-only PlayStation 5 when the console debuted in 2020, and with the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 seemingly skipping any kind of physical versions, despite the money they would bring in.
Sony went radio silent for a few days after announcing the disc, then its next social media posts discussed the FlexStrike, an upcoming arcade joystick for PlayStation systems set to launch next month. Those plans were canceled after Sony released an updated statement on the PlayStation Blog, which delayed the FlexStrike.
Sony Has Messed Up PlayStation FlexStrike Orders
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