Disney’s Marvel Wolverine game is drowning in PlayStation disc backlash
Sony’s new Marvel’s Wolverine trailer racked up more than 10,000 comments, and almost none are about Wolverine. Players are furious that PlayStation is killing physical game discs in 2028, and they’re taking it out on every trailer Sony posts.
Sony dropped a surprise new trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine on Wednesday night. The Disney-owned Marvel character, a PlayStation exclusive, finally back on screen.
The comments should’ve been about Wolverine. They weren’t.
More than 10,000 of them piled up in a day, and almost every single one is about physical discs. Kotaku reported the trailer had cleared 10,000 disc comments before it even hit a million views.
If you’ve been anywhere near gaming news lately, you already know why. If you haven’t, here’s the situation.
Why PlayStation fans are mad at Sony over physical discs
On July 1, Sony announced it’s ending production of physical game discs for new PlayStation games in January 2028.
After that date, new games only come out digitally, on the PlayStation Store or as a download code you buy at a store. No disc in the box. Sony said the move follows “shifting trends in consumer preference,” and the numbers back it up: 85% of PS4 and PS5 full-game sales were already digital downloads.
Games out before 2028 keep their discs. Your existing collection still works. But new games, going forward, aren’t yours to hold, lend, resell, or keep on a shelf. You’re buying a license, not a thing.
For collectors and for people who care about game preservation, that’s the whole fight. A disc works when the servers are gone. A download doesn’t.
Insomniac makes the game, Sony makes the policy
Here’s the part that stings. Insomniac Games, the studio behind Marvel’s Wolverine, had nothing to do with the disc decision.
They make games. Sony, their parent company, makes the corporate policy. And Insomniac’s big Marvel trailer became the most visible wall available for angry fans to spray-paint.
It’s not just Wolverine, either. Every trailer on PlayStation’s channels is getting the same treatment. Where Winds Meet got rechristened “Where Discs Meet.” A Marvel Tokon trailer got flooded with jokes about Ghost Rider’s “physical” car.
The Wolverine comments got clever with it. One that pulled over 10,000 likes: “You know who isn’t the hero? The killer of physical.“ Players also noticed the irony that Wolverine spends the game clinging to a physical photo of him and Jean Grey, so the jokes about him “getting PHYSICAL” wrote themselves.
Marvel’s Wolverine actually ships with a real disc
The twist nobody arguing in the comments seems to mention: Marvel’s Wolverine comes with an actual disc in the box.
Insomniac confirmed it, and it reads as a direct answer to GTA 6, whose “physical” edition turned out to be a download code in an empty case. Per GamesRadar, that likely makes Wolverine one of the last big first-party PlayStation games to ship on a real disc before the 2028 cutoff.
So the game catching the most disc-rage is one of the few still on Team Disc. Fans are mad at Sony and taking it out on a trailer for a game that’s doing the exact thing they want.
Will the PlayStation disc backlash actually change anything
Probably not, and Sony seems to know it.
The company has stayed quiet and looks content to wait the anger out. It’s got the leverage to. A boycott push already fizzled earlier this month when popular Black Ops ports landed and people bought them anyway.
There’s real-world pressure past the comments, though. Retailers have said publicly they won’t “sit idly by,” per TechRadar, and there’s a Dutch lawsuit that could force actual changes if it wins. And Sony’s biggest disc factory is already switching over to making micro optics instead of games, so a reversal would cost real money now, not just pride.
The 2028 cutoff is still 18 months out. That’s a long time for fans to keep flooding every PlayStation post, and a long time for Sony to eat the noise on every trailer, tweet, and showcase it puts out between now and then.
Grab some popcorn. Wolverine’s not the one bleeding here.
Article compiled with the help of the Pirates & Princesses newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
PlayStation.Blog (July 1, 2026), Sony’s official announcement of the January 2028 disc cutoff and the “consumer preference” language
Kotaku (July 17, 2026), the 10,000-comment count and the views-to-comments ratio
GamesRadar (July 17, 2026), the top disc comment, the like count, and Wolverine likely being among the last first-party disc releases
Eurogamer via TheGamer (July 17, 2026), the comment flood across PlayStation trailers and the Jean Grey photo irony
Game Informer and TechCrunch (July 1, 2026), the 85% digital sales figure and the GTA 6 download-code context
TechRadar (July 2026), retailers’ pushback and the Dutch lawsuit