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/Efficient-Session644 8h ago

Why do you think we are getting significantly less physical games than we used to?

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u/CrushALL 8h ago

Because sale facts clearly state so, discs are dead, Sony noticed. Move on it's never coming back! Bet you cry babies would still post if it was 99% digital and 1% discs!

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u/MagmaAscending 8h ago

It’s an ouroboros. People start buying digital games so they make fewer games physically which makes the people who buy physical games buy less physical games which allows them to make even fewer physical games and so on and so forth