News Summary:
On July 5, 2026, Sony DADC management announced a €30 million ($34 million) investment to convert its historic optical disc manufacturing facility in Thalgau, Salzburg, into a high-tech plant for optical microlenses. This development follows Sony's declaration that PlayStation will transition to a digital-only ecosystem by January 2028, effectively ending physical game disc production by the end of 2027. Previously, on July 3, the company confirmed that its largest PlayStation disc manufacturing plant in Thalgau, Austria, which currently produces approximately 600,000 discs daily including PlayStation games, Blu-rays, and CDs, was restructuring its operations and reassigning staff to work on micro optics. Earlier, on July 1, Sony DADC, the sole manufacturer of these discs, detailed its plan to invest €30 million in "Micro Optics" technology, pivoting its Austrian facility towards the automotive and logistics industries to ensure long-term stability after PlayStation's move away from physical discs.
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