{"id":50166,"date":"2026-11-09T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/sony-axing-game-discs-will-have-outsized-impact-on-low-income-gamers-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T06:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:35:35","slug":"sony-axing-game-discs-will-have-outsized-impact-on-low-income-gamers-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/sony-axing-game-discs-will-have-outsized-impact-on-low-income-gamers-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Axing Game Discs Will Have Outsized Impact on Low-Income Gamers, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In brief<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony\u2019s plan to stop making physical game discs in 2028 will hit low-income gamers around the world hardest by killing off the cheap used-game market, experts say.<\/li>\n<li>In Nigeria, downloading GTA 6\u2019s expected 212GB pre-load could cost $25 to $60 in data, a local said, and will take nearly 13 hours at median speeds.<\/li>\n<li>Many African gamers use foreign PlayStation Network accounts, because PSN doesn&#8217;t officially support most of Africa. This breaks Sony\u2019s terms and risks gamers losing their entire digital library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gamers in low-income areas will be among the hardest hit by Sony\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2026\/07\/01\/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener\">decision<\/a> to stop producing physical game discs from 2028, experts told <i>Decrypt<\/i>, while one African games industry expert arguing the continent stands to lose out badly.<\/p>\n<p>The secondary market has long been a cheap way for gamers to get hold of games. The PlayStation Store does run sales, but buying digitally assumes a decent internet connection, which rural households are less likely to have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By abandoning physical discs, some players at the bottom of the economic spectrum lose access to physical distribution through retail and, more importantly,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/382714\/sony-axing-game-discs-will-have-outsized-impact-on-low-income-gamers-experts-say\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief Sony\u2019s plan to stop making physical game discs in 2028 will hit low-income gamers around the world hardest by killing off the cheap used-game market, experts say. In Nigeria, downloading GTA 6\u2019s expected 212GB pre-load could cost $25 to $60 in data, a local said, and will take nearly 13 hours at median<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[140,36],"class_list":["post-50166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","tag-gaming","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}