Sony announced a few weeks ago that it will stop producing new physical PlayStation games by 2028. On Wednesday, three unrelated stories lined up to show exactly how that plan is landing.

A Trailer Nobody Wanted to Talk About

Insomniac dropped a surprise trailer for Marvel's Wolverine, the PS5 exclusive due September 15. It revealed Lady Deathstrike as a villain, teased a Sabretooth team-up, and ended with Logan's face getting sliced open. None of that is what the comments are about. As GamesRadar noted, the top responses under this and every other official PlayStation trailer are variations of the same demand: we want physical games.

Meanwhile, the Discs Sold Out

The same day, Cold Symmetry and publisher Playstack confirmed that Mortal Shell 2's PS5-exclusive physical Revered Edition, a US$70 package with a steelbook, artbook and art prints, is fully reserved across retailers ahead of its August 20 launch. Per Push Square, manufacturing lead times make a restock before release very unlikely. The standard physical edition is still available.

And GameStop Shrugged

Rounding out the day, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen told Bloomberg that the death of physical games "doesn't matter at all. It is totally, totally irrelevant" to his company, as relayed by Kotaku. Games are now just 18 percent of GameStop's revenue against 41 percent for trading cards and toys, and Cohen spent the rest of the interview talking up a rejected US$55 billion bid for eBay.

Our Take

Physical is a niche, and Sony knows it. But it is a niche that reserves collector editions to zero stock a month before launch and shows up in every comment section Sony owns. The awkward part is not the number of discs sold; it is that the people who care most about PlayStation as a platform are the ones being told their format does not matter. Watch whether Sony offers any preservation story at all before 2028, because right now the loudest answer is coming from a sold-out steelbook.