Mexican Lawmakers File Complaint Against Sony's Disc Free Future

Mexican lawmakers are pushing for an official investigation into Sony over its plan to end physical game production by January 2028.

That announcement has already caught the attention of governments outside Japan. Mexico is now among the first countries to take formal action, with lawmakers preparing to file a complaint with the country's antitrust authorities this week.

Federal Representative Iraís Reyes and Senator Luis Donaldo Colosio are behind the filing. Both belong to the Movimiento Ciudadano party, and according to an official statement, they plan to submit their complaint before Mexico's National Antitrust Commission. The two are asking regulators to look into whether Sony Interactive Entertainment is engaging in anti-competitive practices tied to how it sells games.

Reyes is no stranger to gaming related policy fights. She earned the nickname "the gamer representative" after opposing an 8% tax on digital platforms proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum's administration back in 2025. This time, her concern is different. She believes killing physical discs would leave PlayStation users with just one place to shop.

"If discs disappear, anyone who owns a PlayStation will no longer be able to choose where to buy their games and will be forced to purchase them exclusively through Sony's store," Reyes said.

The complaint argues that this shift could hurt both everyday consumers and businesses that currently sell PlayStation titles.

Colosio raised a similar point, but from a different angle. He's worried about what disappears once physical media is gone. Stores like Liverpool, Sanborns, and GamePlanet would lose their ability to compete on pricing. On top of that, the entire secondhand and trading market would vanish too.

He also touched on something gamers have debated for years, digital ownership. According to Colosio, buying a game digitally isn't really buying it at all.

"Consumers would stop truly owning their video games. With digital distribution, you're no longer buying a game in the traditional sense, you're purchasing a license, which means access to the content depends entirely on the conditions established by the company," he said.

The complaint doesn't rely on hypotheticals alone. It points to Sony's 2022 removal of purchased content for European users as a real example of what digital only ownership can look like. It also references Sony's more recent move to revoke licenses for over 500 movies and TV shows, a decision that left many subscribers frustrated.

Reyes argues that Sony's plan hands the company too much control across the board, from hardware to storefront to pricing.

"Sony would become both the referee and the player within its own ecosystem, and we know what can happen when a single company controls every part of the market," Reyes stated.

Colosio also brought up something often overlooked in these conversations, internet access. Not every region in Mexico has reliable high speed connections, and he believes an all digital future ignores that reality entirely.

"By forcing everything to become digital, the assumption is that everyone has access to reliable high speed internet, when we know that isn't the reality throughout Mexico," he said.

The lawmakers claim Sony's approach could count as a relative monopolistic practice under Mexico's Federal Economic Competition Law. Their argument centers on a few key points. Killing physical media would erase resale and lending markets, effectively making Sony the only price setter for PlayStation games. Developers would also lose an alternative distribution path, leaving them dependent on PlayStation's digital storefront and whatever commission rates or terms Sony decides to enforce.

Mexico isn't the only place where pushback is growing. A petition called Don't Kill the Disc has picked up steam worldwide, crossing 300,000 signatures in just two weeks. Petitions like this aren't legally binding, but they tend to draw attention, and enough public pressure can sometimes influence corporate decisions anyway.

Sony hasn't issued a response to the Mexican lawmakers' plans.