A week later, the backlash over Sony’s decision to kill off discs heading into the PlayStation 6 generation hasn’t subsided. If anything, it’s starting to become more of an organized pattern. And now that the PlayStation social media accounts have started posting again, even other people’s games are getting caught in the crossfire.
After days of going quiet on socials, the PlayStation X account broke its silence yesterday with a post about Sony’s upcoming arcade fight stick ahead of the launch of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls later this summer. It was immediately ratio’d with both the comments and retweets full of people angry about the company’s decision to abandon physical media in 2028. It’s currently been viewed over 27 million times and has over 65,000 comments. Good luck finding any that aren’t negative.
But the initial influx of rage has now turned into a steady torrent of criticism aimed at whatever else the PlayStation account shares on X. Usually, that’s trailers and news related to other people’s games that are available on Sony’s consoles. Yesterday, that included a preview for The Blood of Dawnwalker, a new Witcher-like vampire RPG. A re-post from the PlayStation Blog received over 2.5 million views and 16,000 negative comments.
Sony also shared the August 20 release date announcement for Souls-like RPG Mortal Shell 2. It has 9,500 negative comments. News of the July 14 Apex Legends x Cyberpunk event. That has 8,500 negative comments. A trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online Season One update. That has 4,400 negative comments. Even a July 7 tweet from the Doom account for the new Dark Ages DLC became collateral damage when PlayStation re-posted it.
“Retweeting Doom will NOT save you Sony, and we are NOT playing Doom or any other game on PlayStation anymore,” read one response. “OH? So you can physically retweet but you can’t release physical games?” read another. A third added, “I feel bad for anyone retweeted by PlayStation right now. Oh well. You all know what to do.”
How long will the online protests last? And if they continue, will it even have any impact on Sony’s long-term plans? “I do think Sony will respond in some capacity given the backlash (and tbh they shouldn’t have announced this until they were ready to disclose how discs would work on PS6),” Niko Partners research and insights director Daniel Ahmad wrote on X. “But I’d be surprised if they do a full reversal at this point.”
In the meantime, a petition begging the company to change its mind has already hit over 227,000 signatures.