This has been my concern, as well. Games *rarely* ship as a finished product anymore. All the disc is really good for is acting as a token for ownership.

Some of the Game of the Year editions used to have the full game on a disc, but even towards the end of that trend, companies just started packing the original disc with dlc codes.

Even if there is actual data on the disk and not just a glorified license key it does not mean that you could do anything with these disks if Sony decides otherwise...

I sell games back. You can easily recoup 75% of your cost.

That is true.

I mean, didnt they make a PS5 without any means to use physical media?

wait are they the only folk who sell playstation games

You’d still expect it to be larger share because they take a big cut (licensing fee) from third party physical sales too.

i'm just being glib to insinuate this reeks of hollywoo accounting

At least he can sell the disks