Sony has confirmed it will halt production of physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028. New titles released after that point will ship digital-only, with disc pressing reserved for games already on shelves. It’s a slow fade rather than a sudden cutoff, but the direction is clear: the physical PlayStation game is on its way out.

For sim racers, the timing is worth noting. Whatever comes next in the Gran Turismo line could well be among the last major first-party racers to get a proper boxed release — or the first to skip one entirely, depending on where it lands in the schedule. Nobody’s said which side of 2028 the next GT falls on, so treat that as an open question rather than a promise either way.

The practical fallout depends on how you play. If you already buy everything from the store, this changes almost nothing for you. If you like owning a case on the shelf, lending a disc to a friend, or picking up a title cheap secondhand years later, that door is closing for new releases. Collectors who’ve built shelves around the series’ physical editions have a firm deadline now, and late-run pressings of any post-2028-adjacent GT could become the sort of thing people hunt for.

There’s also the quieter long-term question of preservation. Discs aren’t a perfect archive — many modern games need patches to run properly anyway — but they’re a copy that doesn’t depend on a storefront staying online. As that option disappears, keeping older sim racers playable leans more heavily on servers and licences nobody guarantees forever.

No panic required here. 2028 is a way off, and nothing about your current library changes. But if physical media is part of how you value a game, it’s a date worth marking.

Originally reported by GTPlanet.