Insomniac confirms Marvel's Wolverine is 'fully playable on the disc' out of the box — just months before Sony ends physical game production for good

Marvel's Wolverine is "fully playable" on a PS5 disc Insomniac Games says it encourages players to download the day-one patch when it arrives The studio's comments come after Sony shared its plan to quit making discs Insomniac Games has clarified that Marvel's Wolverine will be "fully playable" on d

<![CDATA[ <article> <ul><li><strong>Marvel's Wolverine is "fully playable" on a PS5 disc</strong></li><li><strong>Insomniac Games says it encourages players to download the day-one patch when it arrives</strong></li><li><strong>The studio's comments come after Sony shared its plan to quit making discs</strong></li></ul><p>Insomniac Games has clarified that <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/marvels-wolverine"><em>Marvel's Wolverine</em></a> will be "fully playable" on disc following <a href="https://www.techradar.com/gaming/in-a-huge-blow-to-game-ownership-playstation-confirms-end-of-physical-games-mere-days-after-gta-6s-disc-less-pre-orders">Sony's decision to end physical disc production</a>.</p><p>Speaking to <a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/marvels-wolverine-ps5-disc-insomniac" target="_blank">Eurogamer</a>, senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed essentially confirmed that the upcoming superhero game will be among the last <a href="https://www.techradar.com/reviews/ps5">PS5</a> games to be fully playable on disc, before they're phased out in January 2028.</p><p>"<em>Marvel's Wolverine</em> will come out in digital and physical [versions] and the game will be fully playable on the disc when you purchase it," Reiner-Reed said, but urged players to download the day-one update.</p><p>"With that said," the developer said, "we want people or encourage people to download that day-one patch because we are right now working on - or we're continuing over the next few months before release - to work on polish and some bug fixing."</p><p>Head of technology Mike Fitzgerald added, "I would say we're perfectionists. We take every minute we can get to just tweak this little thing, make everything a little bit better - we're gonna squeeze as much out of it as we can. And so if players download that patch, they get that little bit of extra time."</p><p>Despite the backlash that followed Sony's announcement to quit making physical discs, the company <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-acknowledges-strong-views-on-decision-to-kill-playstation-discs-but-insists-were-going-to-cautiously-move-this-forward" target="_blank">recently committed to its plan</a>. PlayStation fans are still making their feelings known, however, and even <a href="https://www.techradar.com/gaming/you-know-who-isnt-the-hero-the-killer-of-physical-angry-playstation-fans-are-flocking-to-the-new-wolverine-trailer">descended on the latest <em>Wolverine</em> trailer to share how much they care for physical games</a>.</p><p>Eurogamer also asked Insomniac about the situation at the game's preview event, but Fitzgerald said it wanted to focus on the game.</p><p>"We have been working on this for so long," he said, "we're so excited to have everyone in the office getting to spend time with the game, and I want to make sure we spend time talking about that."</p><p><em>Marvel's Wolverine</em> launches on PS5 on September 16.</p> </article> ]]>