Sony's decision to end game disc production and go fully digital in 2028 was met with no small amount of backlash. Concerns range from loss of the ability to trade in old games on new ones to the potential inability to play games when services are offline—which happens—or accounts are lost, not to mention the basic principle of the thing: What do you really own if your ownership is dependent upon the whims of a distant digital platform?
Despite that pushback, Sony isn't changing its mind: During the company's latest earnings call, chief financial officer Lin Tao said she knows people have "strong views" on the topic, but so does Sony, and its view is that it's going to happen.
"There are various reasons we made this decision," Tao said in response to an analyst's question about the driving factors behind the change. "The biggest being that the digitalization of contents overall has been progressing. That's the big factor.
"It's not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of contents, digitalization is progressing, and so when we think about the future, we put in a l...
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