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Slighly funny as a joke, but it's a real nonsense comparison. Public code hosted on GitHub is constantly changing, a physicsl copy is basically meaningless. Plus, you ALREADY own your code, by nature of it being DRM-free. You can copy it as many times as you want and store it on whatever medium you want. If this was something the PS6 was offering, the cancellation of physical media would be a nothing burger.
You also own it from a copyright perspective. Any code you write yourself is your own, and GitHub is only given a license to use it when you choose to upload it there (and if you use GH Copilot I guess). You are free to copy and distribute your own code however you want with no regard to anybody else's wishes. You may even choose to charge money for access to your code if you want.
The two are completely incomparable. Still, it's a well-deserved jab at Sony, though somewhat of a pot-and-kettle situation when accounting for MS as a whole.
To be fair the days when a game was "released" and that was that are also pretty much long gone. Big studios now rely on being able to patch bugs after release.