Sony's plans to end support for new PlayStation discs has caused huge volumes of uproar in the gaming world, but one analyst thinks the situation was inevitable, especially with an incoming PS6 that could cost somewhere around $1000.
"I think this was always going to happen," games analyst Piers Harding-Rolls says in a chat with Edge Magazine, arguing that the costs involved in manufacturing physical games are eating into Sony's bottom line. "Sales of physical games are pushing more revenue out of the ecosystem of Sony and its publishing partners, and they're the ones that are bearing the costs. No fee for printing the disc and shipping it out means there's more share for Sony and publishers."
