Sony has established a model new manufacturing line for PlayStation 5 discs in Brazil, which ought to assist make it simpler for gamers in Latin America to acquire bodily media for the console.
Reported by VGC, the brand new manufacturing line has been arrange at Sony’s Manaus services. Inbuilt tandem with electronics agency Options 2 Go, the manufacturing facility has manufactured bodily PlayStation media for earlier era consoles. However now marks the primary time – greater than three years into its lifecycle – that it is producing bodily media for PS5.
The manufacturing line will produce bodily video games which are as much as 100GB in dimension, in order that’ll embody a lot of the greatest PS5 video games together with Gran Turismo 7, Demon’s Souls, and Ultimate Fantasy 16. Total, this could permit Latin American gamers preferring or want bodily media to have the ability to extra simply get hold of them with out doubtlessly paying a premium on imports.
Extra video games for extra of us
PlayStation Latin America’s senior director, Miguel Cunha, made a press release on the creation of this new manufacturing line, saying: “We’re excited to share the information that, any more, PlayStation 5 bodily discs of our unique and third-party video games might be produced in Brazil.
“To make sure most effectivity within the manufacturing course of, a group of specialists from Sony Interactive Japan spent weeks in Brazil engaged on set up, programming, and coaching native workers. The initiative reinforces the dedication to Brazil and the Brazilian group.”
Whereas subscription providers like PS Plus and the PS5 Slim‘s non-compulsory disc drive signify a shift in the direction of digital content material prioritization, it’s reassuring to see that Sony no less than considerably stays eager on producing bodily media. Particularly on this case, because it’s an space during which bodily PS5 discs might not have been as straightforward to come back by as within the US, UK, or Australia.
