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Update #4 []:
Sony has returned to social media almost a week after announcing it’ll cease manufacturing physical games. It received over 3,000 responses in less than ten minutes, and that number is soaring. They’re virtually all about physical games.
Instead of addressing the elephant in the room, the manufacturer decided to promote its upcoming FlexStrike arcade stick.
Presumably it’ll be business as usual from here on, although looking at its YouTube, I imagine every post is going to get picketed for the foreseeable future.
I think the manufacturer needs to put out some kind of statement about all this, because the backlash is showing no signs of dying down.
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Update #3 []: It’s now been five full days since Sony last posted on any of its social media accounts apart from YouTube, with its X, Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram accounts all still abandoned.
To put this into context: the company followed a similar tactic when it closed Bluepoint, but this only lasted 72 hours. It’s going to receive a frosty reception when it does return, likely later today.
Over on X, it’s received multiple community notes about its decision to kill physical games, although some of them include inaccurate information in an attempt to strengthen their point. Not exactly useful for users, in my opinion.
Over on the PS Blog, it’s continuing to receive strong comments from fans.
The platform holder will likely be hoping it can weather this storm, but I just don’t see it going away.
Update #2 []:
It’s now been more than two days since Sony posted on social media, after controversially killing physical games this week.
The platform holder’s X, Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram accounts all remain unchanged, as it weathers a fan backlash unlikely to soften any time soon.
Somewhat embarrassingly, on X (or Twitter), the platform holder’s post about ceasing to manufacture physical games has now received a community note.
It reads:
“Digital purchases grant a revocable license to access content, not ownership. Sony recently removed hundreds of purchased StudioCanal movies from libraries due to licensing.”
As I wrote previously, it has sporadically been updating YouTube, as it has agreements with third-party partners to help them promote their games. As you’d expect, the comments aren’t pretty in the slightest.
Meanwhile, it’s continued to update the PS Blog, although again, the comments are all only about one thing.
As it’s a holiday weekend in the US, I’m not expecting the manufacturer to return to social media until Monday at the earliest.
Whenever it decides to continue posting, though, I think we can safely say it’s going to be met with extreme resistance. This isn’t going away.
Update #1 []: It’s now been over 24 hours since Sony posted on any of its social media accounts, and it looks unlikely to return any time soon.
The platform holder’s X, Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram accounts haven’t changed since yesterday’s controversial physical games news.
YouTube has been updated a handful of times with new trailers, although these have clearly been submitted by third-party publishers in coordination with their marketing efforts.
The vast majority of the comments on YouTube are all about the company’s decision to stop manufacturing discs in 2028.
It’s going to be interesting to see how long it maintains this; when it closed Bluepoint it stayed away from social media for over 72 hours, but I don’t think fan sentiment is going to cool as quickly on this particular issue.
Original Story: Sony has seemingly abandoned all of its social media accounts after today’s controversial decision to stop manufacturing physical games in 2028.
The manufacturer posted on its X (or Twitter) account today to confirm the news, and hasn’t updated since.
Ordinarily it’d share today’s PS Plus Essential update with its followers, but it hasn’t published that anywhere aside from the PS Blog.
A Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls gameplay trailer, detailing the moves and combos of Iron-Man, also went out on the fighter’s official account – but not the PlayStation one.
Meanwhile on YouTube, no trailers have been uploaded for 24 hours, and its last Bluesky update was on Tuesday. A Gitaroo Man video went out in the early hours of this morning on Facebook, but there’s been nothing since.
Meanwhile, its most recent Instagram update – published prior to today’s news – is packed with people begging the company to reconsider its decision.
“The end of physical discs is the end of my loyalty,” one heavily upvoted comment says.
This isn’t the first time Sony has quit social media during adversity: it took a 72-hour timeout following the disgraceful closure of Bluepoint earlier this year.
In this instance, I’m not convinced 72-hours is going to be long enough – this backlash is going to last a long, long time.