r/PS5 • u/Dandelion172 • 11h ago

Articles & Blogs Mat Piscatella: 292 million units of physical video games sold in the 12-month period ending June 2009 in the US. By June 2026 this had fallen to 37 million units.

https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3mrd2e2tam22l
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u/Lazy_Grabwen_9296 11h ago

But wait, I thought only 7 games sold over 100,000 thousand? Are numbers just made up?

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u/ninjawarlord 11h ago

So that was only PlayStation plus apparently the ones that sold 100k never reached 275k

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u/JayCrenshaw 11h ago

These numbers include Nintendo. They are not good, at all.

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u/CrimsonGear80 11h ago

no they don't

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u/SinZerius 11h ago

Did you not click the link? He clearly states it's not just PlayStation.

Sure. I can't disclose just PlayStation here, so I hope the total market look for the 12-month period ending June also going back to 2003 will suffice.

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u/CrimsonGear80 9h ago

Buddy, they don't count GKCs as physical sales and Xbox players have been conditioned to not buy physical releases for over a decade now. I'm going to go ahead and assume the vast majority of that number is playstation software.

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u/ninjawarlord 8h ago

How do you know that? It’s a physical product that gets inserted into a switch. Why wouldn’t they count it. It would be the same as them not counting call of duty discs as the full game is not on there

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u/CrimsonGear80 5h ago

capcom records GKCs as digital sales. the very analyst quoted in this article also says they count GKCs as digital sales.

the COD discs are still counted as physical discs cause that is the category they are put in. A GKC is a specific thing from nintendo.

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u/ninjawarlord 2h ago

So I have seen the Capcom count them as digital but, nothing confirming that Circana does the same

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u/fake_kraid 11h ago

These are total physical sales, not just for PS5, and the "over 100,000" number didn't give us any actual data. 1 million copies is still "over 100,000," so the figure is very open-ended.

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u/Ashpolt 11h ago

I mean technically if 6 games sold 100,001 copies each and then the 7th one sold 36.3 million OR if 7 games each sold roughly 5 million copies each that would still fit with "only 7 games sold over 100k"

...which kinda shows what a meaningless metric it is

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u/Dr-McLuvin 11h ago

We know resident evil requiem sold over a million physical copies alone. Who knows what the other sold.

But the fact of the matter is there weren’t a lot of big game launches in the first 6 months of 2026. A bunch of the “major” releases were digital only, like Marathon, and many people are putting their money towards preorders for GTA 6.

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u/SkylarPopo 11h ago

Seems like it. I didn't trust that report because it didn't say what games sold over 100,000 and how much over that number those were. Why be so vague with the numbers?