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Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical Games
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Their competition (Nintendo and Steam) already don't have physical media. Nintendo is moving towards 100% Game Key cards, and Steam is all downloads. Playstation could have used physical media as a competitive advantage, but decided against it for cost reasons. So now this is the end of gaming physical media. The game sizes are just way too large.
Just to be fair, the Nintendo Switch 2 does support "Game Key Card" games. Such that you still must download the game and use the card to authenticate your game.
However there are zero first party* Nintendo games that are "Game Key Card" games. If you buy Mario or Zelda you do get the game on the card.
I do expect that will change in the future and follow the trend Sony is taking to be 100% digital. So you're right to be concerned that they are heading in the same direction.in fact with Sony already heading that direction it's even more certain.
*(Pokemon, which feels like a first party and Nintendo owns a large portion of, is technically third party.)