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dude they already own the locked down hardware you need to play the games. you already have to pay monthly fees or get locked out of most of your games. they can already lock you out of all your games whether or not you have physical media. if you're doing business with sony, YOU'RE ALREADY FUCKED. just lie back and enjoy it, or fucking leave.
How?
Online activation requirements. Physical media going away is really just a symptom, DRM is the actual issue. Games have always been just a license, what changed is that the licenses are no longer transferable and irrevokable. (They might even still be legally irrevokable, not sure, but they can just shut down drm servers and you can't install).
Ofc DRM-free steam games or GOG games etc. aren't transferable either, but the main issue for most people is clearly that they might lose access.
Consoles could just include a feature to back up game install files to USB storage or NAS and losing disks becomes irrelevant, but DRM will always fuck the customer in the ass.