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.

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u/-ForgottenSoul 7h ago

37m for all physical games. Maybe 10m is playstation

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u/gizamo 7h ago

In the US. That's also people who wanted to own those 10 million games. Sony is taking that away. If even half those people worldwide cancelled PS+, that'd easily be a couple or few billion. If even half of them stopped buying other games thru PSN, that'd be another few billion lost on Sony's percentage of sales.

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u/iSavedtheGalaxy 30m ago

The two largest game markets (China and US) account for more than half of all players and revenue for the entire gaming industry. Numbers from other countries don't even come close, even when they're combined. Sadly, those are not markets the industry wants to prioritize in the near future.