Second thoughts are, by their nature, quieter than first announcements, which is presumably why this one arrived not as a press release but as a report about a questionnaire. According to Eurogamer, Sony has been circulating what one account describes as a survey larger than almost anything the company has sent developers before, soliciting their views on the decision to stop producing disc-based PlayStation games. The same claim was carried by Spawn Wave's News Wave broadcast, which framed it under the header of Sony possibly reconsidering a move that has not, by any account here, generated the warm reception a company hopes for when it retires an entire format.

None of this has been confirmed by Sony itself, and it is worth saying so plainly rather than letting a hedge buried in paragraph three do the work: no official statement accompanies the claim in either account, and what exists is a report of internal polling, not an announcement of reversal. Treat it accordingly.

What the report actually claims

The substance, as relayed by Eurogamer and repeated on Spawn Wave's channel, is narrow but pointed:

Sony reportedly sent developers a survey described as unusually large in scope compared to prior outreach.
The survey reportedly asks for feedback specifically on the decision to end production of disc-based games.
The timing follows public backlash to the original announcement, which both accounts note as the context prompting speculation about a rethink.

That is the whole of it. There is no leaked internal memo quoted here, no executive on record, nothing beyond a described survey and the inference that a company does not usually canvass its partners this heavily about a decision it considers finished.

Reading the tea leaves without drowning in them

One is tempted, and I will indulge the temptation only briefly, to note that a company confident in a decision rarely feels compelled to ask the people making its games how they feel about it after the fact. Surveys of this described scale tend to happen when leadership wants cover for a change of direction, or wants ammunition to defend the original one; the report does not tell us which, and neither, generously, does anyone else yet.

What it does confirm, if only by implication, is that the backlash to the disc decision was substantial enough to warrant this kind of internal fact-finding at all. You do not survey developers about a decision nobody minded. Sony's own catalog has spent a decade building the case that physical media, for a certain kind of prestige release, still matters to the people buying it; whether that argument has finally reached the people making the decisions is, for now, still a question rather than an answer.

The prudent position is to wait for Sony to say something, anything, on the record. Everything before that is developers filling out a form, and speculation dressed as a form of hope.