- Hideo Kojima spoke about the end of the physical PlayStation at a festival
- He said he was “very sad” about the announcement and is concerned about what it means for the property.
- He warns that we could be heading towards a streaming future: “Some companies will own the server and say, ‘You can turn on the tap for a certain amount of money each month.'”
Famed video game designer Hideo Kojima has revealed that he is “very sad” about the recent news that Sony plans to stop production of physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028.
Speaking at the Il Cinema in Piazza festival in Rome, Italy, he said, “I’m very sad about it, because I grew up with physical media” and mentioned that he currently collects Blu-rays and DVDs.
“Games are a little different because you download them to your hard drive, so the data stays on your hardware,” he continued. “However, if games move to streaming in the future, that will disappear too. It’s like streaming subscriptions for movies. Like Netflix or Amazon, there is a server somewhere, and you only have the right to turn on the tap. When you open it, the data from the server comes out.”
He fears that in the future many media will only be accessible through subscription services “out of the box”, leaving us with no choice but to pay a monthly subscription to access our favorite titles.
“If that happens, I will no longer own the data,” he says. “Some companies will own the server and say, ‘You can turn on the tap for a certain amount of money each month.’ […] and it is certainly conceivable that data will cease to be distributed. »
“When that happens, I won’t be able to watch my favorite movies or play my favorite games, and that’s the scary part.”
The comments come as fans continue to grapple with the announcement, which has led to widespread backlash, although it appears unlikely that Sony will reverse the decision as PlayStation’s historic factory, which manufactured 24 billion game discs, is already being transformed into a micro-optics lab as production nears its end.
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