Marvel's Wolverine "fully playable" on disc when it releases, Insomniac clarifies, perhaps making it one of the last few PlayStation games that will be

Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac has clarified the game will be "fully playable" on disc when it releases for PlayStation 5 on 15th September.

The short version

• It won't, in other words, be a disc-in-a-box that still requires you to download the game in order to play.
• This may make it one of PlayStation's last fully disc-based games.
• "We take every minute we can get to just tweak this little thing, make everything a little bit better - we're gonna squeeze as much out of it as we can.

What happened

And so if players download that patch, they get that little bit of extra time." Controversy around disc-based releases arose when Insomniac owner Sony announced it would stop producing discs for games from January 2028. It's a move that will kill-off second-hand sales for new games, make disc drives redundant and therefore extinct, and it means Sony will have a near monopoly on game pricing on their digital stores.

Why it matters

"This is all about control," industry experts told us of Sony's move when it was announced .

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