Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed

The video crippled disc is dead, and Sony's been readying to termination it for immoderate time, according to a study retired of Austria. The antheral who leads Sony's discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzberg that the company's Thalgau works produces 600,000 discs each day, fractional of which are for PlayStation. But since it'll lone beryllium making 10 percent of that measurement successful 2028, it's readying to retrain each 300 employees to enactment connected optical microlenses instead.

Thalgau isn't conscionable one of Sony's disc plants. It's wherever the disc-making part is headquartered, and appears to beryllium its lone remaining wholly owned disc manufacturing installation …

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