The latest double whammy that both Grand Theft Auto 6 and PlayStation will soon be ditching disks and going digital has angered fans and roused old discussions of what ownership of videogames and players rights will look like in a digital future. Spoiler alert: it’s not great, that’s if Hideo Kojima’s preminitions are anything to go by. But there are some who are willing to put up a fight.
One such person is none other than La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who recently took to social media to say the following: “With GTA 6 without a disc in 2026 and Sony’s announcement of the end of physical disc sales for games in 2028, the question arises of how we view these products.
Avec GTA 6 sans disque en 2026 et l’annonce de Sony de la fin des ventes de disques physiques pour les jeux en 2028, la question de savoir comment on considère ces produits se pose.Demain, vous paierez sans jamais rien posséder. Ni prêt, ni revente, ni garantie de conserver ce…July 2, 2026
“You will pay without ever owning anything. No loan, no resale, no guarantee of keeping what we’ve paid for. Videogames are not mere merchandise—they are cultural assets, and the law in force must apply to them.”
Mélenchon is right, and he’s saying what we’re all thinking. If ownership rights of digital media aren’t expanded upon then mediums such as games will suffer for it. With no control over how we preserve the games we buy and cherish, we run the risk of losing older games that serve as the foundation for our industry and all the rest that follow suit, or as Mélenchon puts it, “our cultural heritage”.
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