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The Limited Edition DualSense arrives 19 November alongside GTA 6. The game's "physical" edition ships a week earlier, on 12 November, because there is nothing in the box that needs installing.

Sort every announcement from the State of Play by release date and the picture is stark: after Marvel's Wolverine, Sony's first-party 2026 is expansions and patches. The games are all 2027.

The protest is aimed at a cutoff in January 2028. The biggest release of the generation ships on 19 November with no disc in the box at all. The thing people are marching against has already happened.

Developers, collectors and lawyers at Cologne this week on the end of physical PlayStation games — plus a report, thinly sourced, that some third parties are keeping their distance from Sony.

Hiroki Totoki says the next PlayStation has no fixed date and no fixed price, and points at a memory shortage he expects to run through FY2027. "Otherwise, we cannot survive in this landscape."

Insert a disc, claim a digital entitlement, keep the disc playable. Microsoft has announced its disc-to-digital programme weeks after Sony announced the end of PlayStation discs — and the timing is not subtle.

CFO Lin Tao told analysts the company had weighed the decision and was not seeing any impact on its business. Petitions, a boycott and eight weeks of backlash have not moved the 2028 date.

Microsoft's disc-conversion programme starts testing today. It arrives eight weeks after Sony announced the end of PlayStation discs, and the contrast is the entire point.

PlayStation owners received an email restating that digital purchases are licences, not property — days into a protest about exactly that. The language is standard. The timing is not.

Dying Light 2, Big Walk and Signalis stop being claimable at the end of the month. Claiming takes about thirty seconds and you do not need to install anything.