Sony says PlayStation disc production for new games ends in January 2028

Sony said on July 1, 2026, in a PlayStation Blog post, that it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games from January 2028. From then on, the post said, new games will be sold digitally only, both on PlayStation Store and through retailers.

The post, by Sid Shuman of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said the change does not affect games already out, or games that come out on disc before January 2028. Sony gave consumer trends as its reason, saying the "general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs."

The post does not mention Grand Theft Auto VI. TechRadar made the connection itself, noting that the announcement came days after GTA 6 pre-orders opened as digital or code-in-a-box orders only. TechRadar described Rockstar as having dropped the disc in favour of a box holding a download code. That framing is TechRadar's. Sony did not link its decision to any single game.

For GTA 6 on PS5, nothing in Sony's post changed the November 19, 2026 launch or the way the game is sold. The January 2028 cut-off falls more than a year after launch, and the post did not address whether GTA 6 might ever get a disc on PlayStation. Neither Sony's post nor TechRadar's article carried a comment from Rockstar or Take-Two.

Several things were not known. Sony did not say what the change means for future hardware, and TechRadar's view that it points to a digital-only PS6 is the outlet's own reading, not something Sony stated.

Since then, Take-Two chief executive Strauss Zelnick told IGN in August that he "wouldn't rule out anything" on a later GTA 6 disc. None has been announced.