Sony won't be producing game disks anymore—a decision that's been met industry-wide with a mixture of frustration and ambivalence, depending on which side of the fence you fall on. Personally, I don't think a videogame company or distribution platform having final say over whether you concretely own something is healthy, even if I am admittedly arm-deep in Steam purchases. It's a controversial enough mandate that it even got a french politician riled up!
It's also something that makes the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 a little melancholy, per a recent interview with Automaton: "Personally, I find it super sad because I really like video game stores," says CEO and Creative Director of Sandfall Interactive Guillaume Broche. "We have a lot of people on the team who play on PS5 and love to collect physical discs. I think it's part of the beauty of art too – that it's something tangible that you can touch.
