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Let me be clear. I'm as disheartened as anyone at PlayStation's announcement this week that it will cease production of physical PlayStation games. I am pro physical media. I don't collect physical games myself anymore, but I do collect movies on Blu-ray, I only read real books, I have many CDs and vinyl LPs, and I buy physical Switch games for my kids.

There are so many reasons to support physical media. There's the existential issue of the preservation of art. There's the legal, practical, and financial issue of personal ownership of the things we spend money on. There are social, cultural, and personal dimensions to it, too: physical art is art that can be shared, lent, exchanged, gifted, or simply treasured.

But, let's be honest. The discs themselves? Good riddance. Back in the 1990s, Sony cursed video games with a media format that never suited the artform, and I'll be glad to see the back of it.

I'm fine with optical........

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