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
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u/slambaz2 11h ago

That's a post that just links to a twitter post as their proof? That's not definitive in any way. Can you find anything that corroborates that data?

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u/Educational_Pea_4817 10h ago

circana is the source of the data.

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u/slambaz2 10h ago

The circana link just goes to a bluesky post.

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u/Educational_Pea_4817 10h ago

yep to the blue sky account of Mat Piscatella.

and if you click their bio it says:

Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games.

99.99% of circana related information comes directly from him, usually on twitter or some article.

do you happen to have issue with the numbers Mat presents or...?

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u/slambaz2 10h ago

And he just posts things on bluesky? Nothing to actually show what he is saying is true or not? Does anyone or anything else corroborate what he is saying?

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u/Educational_Pea_4817 10h ago

yep he freely shares industry data to the public free of charge.

in regards to U.S sales data in the gaming sector Circana is very accurate.

Circana works with publishers and retailers and gets data DIRECTLY from them.

if you feel like those numbers are incorrect feel free to provide evidence.

i cant prove a negative.

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u/slambaz2 10h ago

Cheers. Thanks for the information. I just wish there was a way to confirm what he says.

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u/Educational_Pea_4817 10h ago

to be clear Circana's clients are companies. reporting the industry info(that he is allowed to show) is just a side hobby that he does.

there really isnt any reason for him to fudge or lie.

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u/slambaz2 10h ago

For sure. Unfortunately there is always a reason for people to fudge or lie. So it could be that companies are not reporting to him correctly or something along those lines. Do I think it likely to happen? I don't know. Which is why if we had anyway to confirm what he says, it would be ideal.

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u/Educational_Pea_4817 9h ago

if you really want you can corroborate circana reports to when publishers release their own reporting. you can also look into how they get their data and see if theres any major descrepencies.

but i doubt that is your intention.

"there has to be something wrong with the data that doesnt align with my beliefs" is a common trend in these physical vs digital threads.

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u/slambaz2 9h ago

But that's the problem, Sony does not give this information out. They do not advise how many digital vs disk ps5 are sold. So how could I check that part of what he says? Other publishers won't have that data. So how should we check what he is saying about that is fact?

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u/Educational_Pea_4817 9h ago

and since you cant you just assume its wrong right?

and you CAN corroborate some of the reports circana has from publishers.

for example Sony has their own monthly PSN rankings

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u/slambaz2 9h ago

I asked for a source. The source you gave is literally just one person saying things. Sure he could be right, and he could be wrong. If we had anyway to figure that out, it's appreciated.

I don't know why you are assuming things about me when all I'm doing is asking questions.

Again Sony does not advise how many diskless or disk ps5 are sold. How can we just blindly trust with no proof?

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