{"id":23762,"date":"2026-07-01T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/sony-will-kill-playstation-games-on-discs-in-2028-and-offer-digital-downloads-only\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:37:14","slug":"sony-will-kill-playstation-games-on-discs-in-2028-and-offer-digital-downloads-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/sony-will-kill-playstation-games-on-discs-in-2028-and-offer-digital-downloads-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI only available as download, Sony is following suite<\/p>\n<p>Sony said on Wednesday that it would stop releasing new video games for the PlayStation console on disc in January 2028 following a shift in consumer preferences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only,\u201d the company said on its official PlayStation blog.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/jul\/01\/sony-playstation-digital-downloads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2d0ee53108915a2cf7269dd6b91c7fd70eb274a\/500_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b36ab7d40b890ba3a6024600422abcaa\" title=\"Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only\" \/>With the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI only available as download, Sony is following suite<br \/>\nSony said on Wednesday that it would stop releasing new video games for the PlayStation console on disc in January 2028 following a shift in consumer preferences.<br \/>\n\u201cFollowing this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only,\u201d the company said on its official PlayStation blog. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI only available as download, Sony is following suite Sony said on Wednesday that it would stop releasing new video games for the PlayStation console on disc in January 2028 following a shift in consumer preferences. \u201cFollowing this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/sony-will-kill-playstation-games-on-discs-in-2028-and-offer-digital-downloads-only\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}