Natish Pawwa
Nitish Pahwa, staff writer covering business and tech at Slate Magazine, appeared as a guest on WHYY's Studio 2 episode "What's lost in the era of streaming and subscriptions?"
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Sep 24, 2026
Cherry GreggHOST
What has been the argument that the company is making to the fans, the consumers, as to why this makes sense and what are they getting from it?
Natish PawwaGUEST
So the argument, at least public facing, and this is definitely backed by data, is that consumers just aren't buying as many physical copies of things anymore.
Natish PawwaGUEST
digital media transitions, especially from music with the visual streaming and now with games like a lot of folks just prefer to buy online or get a subscription.
Natish PawwaGUEST
And with that, physical media sales fell and quite starkly, you know, from their peaks.
Natish PawwaGUEST
That being said, it's not as though physical in Sony's case whatsoever, they were still selling tens of millions and millions of discs.
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