Sony has become toxic for developers: comments under trailers gather only negativity due to the company's stance on discs

Eat Pant Games studio was the first to complain.

The small New Zealand studio Eat Pant Games reported that the joy of releasing the platformer Teeto on PlayStation 5 quickly turned into disappointment due to mass protests from players against Sony's decision to abandon physical game editions.

Teeto is a 3D platformer about a droplet and a rabbit who must stop a mysterious dark corruption spreading across the world. In honor of the release, the official PlayStation YouTube channel published a trailer for the game, but the audience's attention was drawn not to the new title.

According to the developers, they were initially thrilled to see the video gather over 400 comments.

As it turned out, almost all comments were not about the game itself, but about Sony's recent decision to completely abandon the release of games on discs starting January 2028. Popular messages include calls to "not let our future be destroyed," "save discs," and "we want to own our physical copies of games."

In addition, the trailer faced a wave of negative ratings. Although YouTube no longer publicly displays the number of dislikes, third-party extensions show that the video received about 1,100 dislikes against 259 likes.

However, this problem affected not only Teeto. Almost all recent videos on the official PlayStation channel have been targeted by dissatisfied users. These include trailers for Mai: Child of Ages, Where Winds Meet, Moss: The Forgotten Relic, Pro Jank Footy, and other videos where comments are also filled with demands to preserve physical media.

Even major projects did not escape the situation. The new trailer for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls featuring Spider-Man received about 5,100 dislikes against 1,700 likes, and most of the more than 1,100 comments were dedicated to criticizing Sony's policy.