Sony plans to stop manufacturing physical PlayStation games by January 2028, ending disc-based releases entirely. Gamers are pushing back because they worry about losing ownership of games and media choice — if you can only buy digital licenses that can be revoked, you don't truly own what you pay for. But here's the thing: while streaming services have become huge for films and music, physical media in those industries hasn't actually disappeared. You can still buy physical movies, CDs, vinyl records, and books. So games won't be the first entertainment medium to go all-digital — they'd actually be moving in a different direction than films and music, which have managed to coexist with their physical formats rather than replace them entirely.