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Sony isn’t phasing out discs quite as quickly as we thought (theverge.com)

2026-09-08 | by Sean Hollister | get PS5 disc drive → | tags: sony, sony dadc, thalgau plant

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Sony threatens to cut off customer support and pursue legal action over harassment as backlash to PlayStation’s physical-disc phaseout intensifies — company to move forward with no disc decision despite several lawsuits (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-08 | by Etiido Uko | get PS5 disc drive → | tags: sony, playstation, physical discs

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You can now play PS3 games straight from the disc, without owning a PS3 (techspot.com)

2026-09-07 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Pioneer BDR-XD08B external Blu-ray drive → | tags: rpcs3, ps3 emulator, playstation 3

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Here’s Xbox’s Plan To Let You Save All Your Game Discs (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-26 | get Seagate Storage Expansion Card Xbox Series X → | tags: xbox, game discs, digital copies

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Sony Is Reminding Us (Again) That We Don’t Own Our PlayStation Games (cnet.com)

2026-08-25 | by Joe Hindy | get PS5 disc drive slim console attachment → | tags: playstation, sony, playstation 6

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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Nintendo GameCube discs were small for a reason (engadget.com)

2026-08-16 | by Dave Meikleham | tags: nintendo gamecube, minidvds, dolphin emulator

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The pros and cons of the switch to digital games (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: digital, discs, game

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Sony doubles down on axing physical game discs — CFO reiterates 'we’re going to cautiously move this forward' (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: playstation, sony, physical discs

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Sony’s Plan to Kill Physical PlayStation Discs Faces Gamer Backlash (cnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ajay Kumar | tags: playstation, sony, physical discs

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Sony Heard Backlash Over Dropping PlayStation Discs, Plans to Press Ahead (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: playstation, digital ownership, lin tao

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PlayStation Discs Are the Least of Sony’s Problems Right Now (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: playstation, sony, ram prices

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PlayStations Discs Are the Least of Sony’s Problems Right Now (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: playstation, sony, ram

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Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: sony playstation, digital downloads, lin tao

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Sony will move forward with its plans to stop making PS5 discs despite backlash (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Matt Tate | tags: ps5, sony, ps6

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A third of physical PS5 games and half of Xbox Series discs need downloads to work properly, report shows (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Rob Thubron | tags: ps5, xbox series, physical discs

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Sony pushes forward with ditching discs, despite backlash (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: playstation, sony, digitalization

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Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage (engadget.com)

2026-07-29 | by Anna Washenko | tags: xbox, game discs, licensing service

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Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the way (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: xbox, microsoft, smart delivery

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Somebody Remind Me Why Game Discs Are So Great Again? (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: xbox, game discs, entitlements

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PlayStation Network outage resolved after thousands of gamers unable to play (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-24 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: playstation network, sony, amazon web services

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PlayStation’s Day-Long Outage Has Gamers Asking What’s So Wrong with Discs (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: playstation, playstation network, sony

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Sony's Decision To Ditch Discs Was Practically Inevitable, Data Shows (slashdot.org)

2026-07-23 | tags: sony, playstation, circana

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Sony's decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: sony, playstation, circana

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Discs Aren’t Dead Quite Yet, Apparently (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: cds, vinyl, music sales

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GameStop CEO says Sony's decision to go disc-less is 'totally irrelevant' — claims software, including physical discs, accounts for only 12% of the company's business (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-17 | by Etiido Uko | tags: sony, gamestop, physical discs

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Xbox Might Have Way to Win Over PlayStation Fans as Sony Ditches Discs (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: digital, digital future, digitize

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PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | by Rasmus Larsen | get PlayStation Digital Game Storage → | tags: account, digital, discs

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PlayStation disc petition approaches 200,000 signatures as backlash grows over Sony's decision to stop producing new physical media — firm still plans to produce optical media for existing titles, but new games will be digital only (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-07 | by Luke James | get PlayStation 4 Game Disc → | tags: disc, discs, games

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GitHub Thumbs Nose At Sony's Controversial End to Physical Media With Its Introduction of Repo CDs (slashdot.org)

2026-07-07 | get GitHub Repository Organizer → | tags: discs, github, july