Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed ^25.8%

The Verge - By Sean Hollister - 7/3/2026, 1:05 AM

Appeal to Authority 41.4% - Hasty Generalization 19.1% - Negativity Bias 17.7%

The video game disc is dead, and Sony’s been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony’s discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzburg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But since it’ll... more