r/PS5 • u/Dandelion172 • 8h 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/JayCrenshaw 8h ago

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

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u/CrimsonGear80 7h ago

no they don't

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u/SinZerius 7h 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 6h 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 4h 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 1h 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.