Sony will reportedly gradually cease production of optical disc storage media products, including Blu-ray discs. Lays off 250 people from division.

[Remij 4,983]

 

 

The writing is on the wall  

 

 

[-GD-X★ 8,235]

Nice. All digital ftw 

[Twinblade★ 4,185]

This will suck.

[David P 135]

28 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

This will suck.

 

[sugarhigh 597]

All digital console is bad news. The first party as the only storefront will certainly result in fuckery. Especially with Xbox sputtering.

[Nightshade79 32]

Does anyone else make Blu-Ray/4K or this is the end?

[Remij 4,983]

29 minutes ago, Nightshade79 said:

Does anyone else make Blu-Ray/4K or this is the end?

Apparently this report is concerning blank discs for storage and not specifically referring to discs produced with content already on them.  However in the report you can read between the lines..

 

"The planned job cuts come amid a decline in demand for traditional storage formats such as Blu-ray discs, with streaming services now the norm."

 

So there will still be 3rd parties which make recordable blu-rays for the time being.. but when the major player who created the format signals their exit from the medium, citing "streaming" being the norm now.. it's only a matter of time.  All the dominoes are falling.. you have retail stores cutting back on physical media, and now you have the manufacturers stopping production.  They're beginning to fall.. and who's going to be the ones to create a new standard if not Sony and Toshiba and the like?  They're not going to make a new standard when the major studios like Disney and others already dropped it for streaming and digital.. so there's no incentive to make a new one.

 

 

[JonDnD 2,957]

Cows never believe anything lmfao

[MalaXmaS 689]

With the adoption of digital streaming and soon after, online gaming storefronts, physical gaming is dead. 

 

[FIREPOWER 899]

 Another Lemij backfire thread. This retard and his shitty sources.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lemshits like him want Sony to validate Microsoft's terrible decisions so badly they are now reporting fake news. Physical games ain't going nowhere with Sony seeing the insane number of games they sell a year on physical.

[Remij 4,983]

3 hours ago, FIREPOWER said:

 Another Lemij backfire thread. This retard and his shitty sources.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lemshits like him want Sony to validate Microsoft's terrible decisions so badly they are now reporting fake news. Physical games ain't going nowhere with Sony seeing the insane number of games they sell a year on physical.

I LITERALLY already stated that in this thread, right above..  

 

LOL dumbopower  

[Tainted 23]

• Film reels, gone
• VHS, gone
• Beta, gone
• Laser discs, gone
• DVD, gone
• HD-DVD, gone
• Blu-ray will be gone to a new medium or all digital. Blu-ray has been out for almost 20 years. The end is near.

Though I am glad that vinyl records came back and is growing. Maybe the gaming industry will learn that better tech does not necessarily equate to a better experience. Speaking of vinyl records:

 

In 2023, 49.61 million vinyl albums were sold in the United States, which is a 14.2% increase from 2022. This was the 18th year in a row that vinyl album sales have increased in the US, and the biggest year since Luminate began tracking data in 1991. Vinyl albums also made up 47.1% of all album sales in the US in 2023