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The story
Overseas leaker “Moore’s Law Is Dead” claims Sony has sent developers a large-scale survey about its plan to discontinue physical discs, apparently to gauge whether the policy should be reconsidered. On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board, the timing sparked skepticism — with posters asking “what’s the point of asking now?” and “isn’t this just covering their tracks?” — since the discontinuation had seemed all but settled. Others questioned the credibility of the source, given MLID is known mainly for PC hardware leaks, while some called for alternatives like Nintendo’s key-card system instead, fueling further debate.
What people said
According to a rumor from "Moore's Law Is Dead," the company has sent out a large-scale survey asking developers for their views on the decision to discontinue physical discs — apparently to determine whether the policy should be reconsidered.
The survey reportedly includes questions along the lines of, "Do you have any concerns about not selling games on physical media?"
So basically the key-card system — that's just a boot disc, isn't it?
It's probably just paperwork to draw up a list of which third parties would 'betray' them.
Wait, does Sony even make disc drives?
Microsoft and Nintendo don't manufacture Blu-ray discs or SD cards either, you know.
They're even holding sales to clear shelf space for it lol
But there's no card slot [on the PS5]. If they're going to do this, it'd just be a regular key disc.
Even with Sony discontinuing BD, could they still make discs if the CD/DVD line is separate? Though apparently PS5 can't read CDs, so it'd probably end up being DVD.
Just roll it out with the PS6. A USB stick would work too.
No need to keep it going. Xbox still has discs overseas too, but they're not manufacturing Blu-ray discs themselves.
They're never going to release the results publicly anyway.
Doesn't matter, it's multiplatform anyway.
Making the disc version first also means the pre-order money comes in earlier.
Yeah, that's probably it.
Guess they'll just keep 'running surveys' all the way to 2030 then.
Yeah, yeah — so THAT was the point of this rumor all along.
If anything, don't you realize PlayStation is the one that's finished if they DON'T walk it back lol
Lol, do you even realize the PS5 is finished if they go through with discontinuing it as-is
Then let's survey the big retailers too.
Tell me one good thing about HD DVD then.
What does Rockstar have to do with this?
More and more titles don't even fit on a single Blu-ray anymore — it's basically already a key-disc setup at this point.
Wait, isn't it 50GB?
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
The purported source of the survey, “Moore’s Law Is Dead,” is best known for leaks about PC CPUs and GPUs and has a thin track record on console internals — a point that drew notable skepticism in the thread about the source’s reliability. As an alternative to physical discs, posters raised Nintendo’s Switch-style “Game Card” system (where the card itself doesn’t hold all the data, requiring an additional download after startup), but since the PS5 hardware has no card slot, it was pointed out that any implementation would likely take the form of a “key disc” — a conventional disc containing only a boot key. Whether the production line for game optical discs is shared with recordable Blu-ray also came up as a point of debate, but the industry has offered no official explanation and it remains unconfirmed. It’s worth noting Sony has made no official announcement whatsoever — this remains strictly unverified leaker information.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Leaker: “Sony Sent Developers a Large-Scale Survey on the Decision to Discontinue Physical Discs, Reconsidering the Policy”.”
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