Oct 11, 2026 · 58 min · 14 segments
Sony’s backlash over physical media is only the opening move. The real story is how a furious modding community, AI tools, and a shifting idea of ownership are exposing the cracks in one of gaming’s…
And I think the timeline is very interesting because it happened in such a short timeframe, like on the 1st of July, 2026.
Like, literally, they put a blog post saying that starting January 2028, they'll stop all physical media.
And, you know, no explanation, no video, nothing like that.
Just this, you know, random blog post on a Wednesday.
And people started, like, writing comments and writing comments.
And, you know, nothing happened.
And...
You know, a month passes and...
We talked about
yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Let's put a trailer for a film.
All the comments would be, don't stop physical media.
So you have this, like, cancer that started in the PlayStation era and just, like, moved through everything.
And then...
And at the same time during a business during the yearly investor stall, the CEO said like, Yeah, you know, all this is happening, but we're not reversing course.
And come October, we get the backlash of not listening to your fans.
And that is the open source modding scene just kicked into gear.
And on October 6, we have any PS5, which is apparently a sort of emulation, but not really emulation because it uses the same kernel as the native Windows OS.
And that gets accelerated to the point that by late September, early October, not only did they manage to break the system and open it up, but now they can run the entire PlayStation OS on any x86 hardware.
And I think the timeline is very interesting because it happened in such a short timeframe, like on the 1st of July, 2026.
Like, literally, they put a blog post saying that starting January 2028, they'll stop all physical media.
And, you know, no explanation, no video, nothing like that.
Just this, you know, random blog post on a Wednesday.
And people started, like, writing comments and writing comments.
And, you know, nothing happened.
And...
You know, a month passes and...
We talked about
yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Let's put a trailer for a film.
All the comments would be, don't stop physical media.
So you have this, like, cancer that started in the PlayStation era and just, like, moved through everything.
And then...
And at the same time during a business during the yearly investor stall, the CEO said like, Yeah, you know, all this is happening, but we're not reversing course.
And come October, we get the backlash of not listening to your fans.
And that is the open source modding scene just kicked into gear.
And on October 6, we have any PS5, which is apparently a sort of emulation, but not really emulation because it uses the same kernel as the native Windows OS.
And that gets accelerated to the point that by late September, early October, not only did they manage to break the system and open it up, but now they can run the entire PlayStation OS on any x86 hardware.
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