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Morgan Park

'They refuse to offer a meaningful alternative': Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option for a discless future

Frank Cifaldi and a PS5 Pro.

Sony drove another nail into the coffin of physical videogames today, announcing that it'd cease production of PS5 discs in 2028. The future of the leading videogame console is total digital licensing, and according to the director of the Video Game History Foundation, that means the future of preservation, for the moment, must be piracy.

Responding to a Bluesky post calling piracy the "only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now", VGHF director Frank Cifaldi agreed.

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