A major petition against Sony’s recent announcement of ending production of physical games has surpassed 100,000 signatures this weekend. Titled “Don’t Kill the Disc: Tell Sony to Keep Physical PlayStation Games”, the petition currently sits at over 102,000 signatures at the time of writing. The Change.org petition was created by Jade Pearce of PNP Games, a well-known storefront that offers physical games.
PlayStation’s announcement has received tremendous criticism online, with the original tweet surpassing 133 million views and 85,000 replies. Alongside its announcement that it will end production of physical copies starting in January 2028, PlayStation announced it will shut down the PlayStation 3 and Vita storefronts, leaving thousands of digital games unavailable for purchase. Following the announcement on July 1, Sony has yet to make any statement or post on the PlayStation social media accounts.
You can sign the petition here. Information regarding its goal can be viewed below:
“On July 1, 2026, Sony announced it will end production of physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting January 2028. New games will be sold digitally, or as a box containing only a download code, with no disc inside. Days earlier, Grand Theft Auto VI confirmed it will launch with no disc at all. When the market leader ends the disc, the rest of the industry follows.
The irony is hard to miss. At E3 2013, Sony won over a generation of players by promising that when you buy a PlayStation game, you can trade it in, sell it, lend it to a friend, or “keep it forever,” and famously mocked the competition for trying to restrict exactly that. Thirteen years later, Sony is the one taking it away.
A disc is a real game you own. You can lend it, trade it, resell it, gift it, collect it, or pass it down to your kids. A box with only a download code is not the same thing. It is a digital license in plastic packaging. You do not own it. You are renting access that can be revoked, and people have already had purchased movies deleted from their libraries and games pulled from sale weeks after launch.
This is also about jobs. Physical games support an entire industry that an all-digital future quietly erases: retailers, distributors, manufacturers, warehousing and logistics, the pre-owned and trade-in market, and the collector and preservation community. That is thousands of jobs and countless small businesses. Ending physical media removes consumer choice, weakens local economies, and hands a few platform holders total control over how, and whether, you can access the games you buy.
We are not against digital. We are against digital being the only option. A large and passionate community still wants a real, physical game they own outright, and Sony is about to take that choice away.
Sign to tell Sony to keep disc-based games alive beyond 2028, so the next generation can own the games they play, not just rent them. If we do not speak up now, the disc disappears, and the choice goes with it.
Organized on behalf of the wider physical game industry, the retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and collectors whose livelihoods and passion depend on physical media.”
