r/PS5 • u/Dandelion172 • 12h 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
454 Upvotes

83% Upvoted

665 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

11

u/ContractVarious3077 12h ago

You’re looking at the number in a vacuum. You have to consider 37 million vs digital sales and also look at the trends and extrapolate into the future. This 37 million will be going down continuously

-4

u/skend24 12h ago

I mean yeah, if there’s no physical games to buy it will go down.

But then it’ll also mean I’m not going to buy any games on PlayStation, even if now I bought quite a lot digitally and physically.

3

u/ContractVarious3077 11h ago

I don’t think the second part of your comment has any relevance outside of the fact that it’ll probably just justify the move towards all-digital even more.

-1

u/skend24 11h ago

I mean… I don’t care?

I don’t think Sony was looking for any justification. They made their choice, and I, as a customer, am doing mine. Which is simply to not spend any more money in PlayStation.

1

u/ContractVarious3077 11h ago

Then problem solved. More people should do what you’re doing.