PlayStation's First Tweet Since It Announced Plans to Kill Discs Is Going About as Well as You'd Expect

PlayStation has published its archetypal tweet since it announced the extremity of carnal discs connected PlayStation consoles — and it’s going astir arsenic good arsenic you’d expect.

On July 1, Sony shocked the video crippled satellite erstwhile it confirmed plans to discontinue carnal disc accumulation for caller PlayStation games from the commencement of 2028. Its tweet announcing this determination has been viewed an astonishing 165 cardinal times truthful far, and successful the six days since, PlayStation failed to accidental different word.

Amid the backlash, immoderate had hoped for a U-turn from Sony, a reverse people that would beryllium announced successful a follow-up tweet perhaps. At the precise least, immoderate fans expected, Sony would code the controversy. Alas, no. Instead, PlayStation’s archetypal tweet since its sidesplitting discs announcement is to beforehand a combat stick.

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“Switch retired lever gates with easiness connected the FlexStrike wireless combat stick,” PlayStation said, with a nexus for further accusation and a video featuring a mates of talking heads who I'm definite are delighted to beryllium archetypal successful enactment to look the rage of PlayStation fans.

The replies are, enactment simply, each astir Sony failing to code the disc announcement. Already the combat instrumentality tweet has had hundreds of thousands of views. The responses are hard to support up with. None of it is pretty, and nary of it is surprising. Here’s a snippet:

Sony there's thing you should address... pic.twitter.com/AtBQIaCoPJ

— NikTek (@NikTek) July 7, 2026

Wireless fightstick? More similar spineless corpo. Feel atrocious for everyone progressive successful that project. They are the sacrificial lamb for the adjacent tsunami of disapproval towards you, Sony. All we attraction astir is that you reverse the determination to portion everyone of ownership implicit their games.

— Does it play? (@DoesItPlay1) July 7, 2026

pic.twitter.com/6Yq5i8QpH3

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) July 7, 2026

Give america carnal discs pic.twitter.com/sTwYwXgEwD

— kjngamer (@kjngamer) July 7, 2026

THEY TWEETED!!! GET EM 🫵 pic.twitter.com/tPDrPiU6zM

— GenerationGameXP (@GGamingXP) July 7, 2026

As IGN has reported, Sony is improbable to budge connected its decision, contempt the backlash. Sony’s stock terms enjoyed a bump pursuing the announcement, which suggests the marketplace is successful favour of it (unsurprising, fixed it volition successful mentation marque the institution much money). One expert said fans of carnal media had their accidental and blew it, truthful there’s nary going back. “If gamers and preservationists had bought much carnal games, Sony wouldn’t person seen the integer income ratios that warrant this decision,” Robin Zhu, a games expert astatine Bernstein, told the Financial Times.

“Digital crippled income transportation fundamentally 100% incremental margin... the outgo of the carnal package, shipping and retailer margins tin beryllium much than 20% per cent of sticker price.”

Still, Sony present faces the imaginable of beauteous overmuch each announcement it makes being overwhelmed by complaints astir the decease of carnal media. There's an constituent of Sony ripping disconnected the Band-Aid present — PlayStation's follow-up tweet would person been met with the aforesaid effect nary substance which merchandise it promoted. But dissimilar PlayStation discs, those comments aren't going anywhere.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].