Overview
- Sony announced Wednesday that starting January 2028 it will no longer produce physical discs for new PlayStation games and will sell titles only in digital form through the PlayStation Store and partner retailers.
- Federal deputy Erika Hilton filed a formal representation on July 3 asking Brazil’s Secretaria Nacional do Consumidor (Senacon) to open an administrative inquiry into the consumer impacts of that move.
- Hilton says digital sales usually grant users licenses not ownership, which can be revoked, and warned that games could disappear from buyers’ libraries and that consumers would lose rights to resell or lend titles.
- The deputy also flagged that PS5 consoles with disc drives remain on sale at higher prices and asked whether Sony used upcoming digital-only titles to market hardware that may lose functionality.
- Senacon has been notified but has not announced any action yet; the change leaves a multi-year window for regulators, courts or industry responses and raises wider concerns about used-game markets, preservation and platform control.