"We Still Value the Culture of Physical Media" As PlayStation Prepares for an All-Digital Future, Sega President Comes Out in Support of Discs
Shuji Utsumi says Sega still values physical media, but the company must strengthen digitalisation as PC play grows and Sony moves to all-digital games.
- Sega president Shuji Utsumi addressed Sony's plan to retire physical game discs by 2028, stating that while the company values physical media, a "digital shift is crucial" for reaching global audiences.
- Utsumi noted that the proportion of gamers using PCs is "steadily increasing," and to cultivate this market, Sega believes it is important to strengthen digitalisation and become more global.
- Drawing on Sega's legacy as a former platform provider, Utsumi emphasized the company's success as a publisher, aiming to act on digital and physical media in parallel.
- Former Nippon Ichi Software CEO Sohei Niikawa objected to Sony's strategy, arguing that if the company eliminates physical packages, it may as well "get rid of the hardware" entirely.
- The $7.2 billion second-hand game market faces risks from Sony's move; Wedbush Securities managing director Michael Pachter noted that the future for Brick and mortar retail is "doomed.
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"We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs
Sega is the latest publisher to make its views about physical media clear, in the wake of Sony's controversial decision to kill off the manufacture and sale of discs by 2028. The president of the Japanese publisher, Shuji Utsumi, noted that he believes physical media is still important, though digital distribution is "crucial", mostly thanks to the "steadily increasing" number of people playing on PC.
The president of the company, Shuji Utsumi, said that they will keep their culture historically focused on physical format. SEGA has stated its intention to continue betting on physical games, despite PlayStation’s announcement to stop producing records from January 2028. As stated by its president, Shuji Utsumi, in an interview with Famitsu, where he said the company will maintain the strong relationship it has had with this format for decades.…
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The video game industry is going through a bad time full of uncertainty and controversial decisions. Although the reports mention that this industry has increased its revenues, what we see are massive layoffs of workers, closures of studies and an uncertain future of work. To all of this we must add now the end of the physical format in consoles thanks to Sony and with that we will probably have to say goodbye to the games on disk for the rest o…
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