No discs, more problems: What Sony’s all-digital PlayStation means for gamers and the industry

(Sony press image) Sony announced on Wednesday morning that it plans to phase out physical media for future PlayStation games, which is a massive market disruption for an already reeling games industry. It ends trade-ins and lending, raises the overall price of entry for the PlayStation ecosystem, and turns your shelf full of games into licenses that can potentially disappear. The news came via a post on the official PlayStation blog by senior communications director Sid Sh