PS6 "won't arrive until 2028 at the earliest," analyst predicts following Sony's decision to kill physical games, and the base model won't have a disc drive

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Now that Sony's revealed it's discontinuing physical games in 2028, the big questions are: when is the PS6 going to arrive, and will it allow you to play discs at all? One analyst believes we might be waiting a while for the new system, and doesn't expect Sony to emphasize discs in the standard version of its new-gen console.

Piers Harding-Rolls, senior games research analyst at Ampere Analysis, shared his thoughts with Game File. "This pretty much guarantees that PS6 won’t arrive until 2028 at the earliest," he says of the PlayStation's physical news, adding that "the base version of a PS6 will not include a physical media drive."