"The other major reason for the drop in software sales was down to a collapse in 360 and PS3 boxed games. Over 3m Xbox 360 boxed games and almost 2m PS3 titles were sold in 2015, but those numbers have plummeted by more than half for both platforms in 2016.

PS4 and 3DS were the only two consoles that sold more games in 2016 than 2015."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-01-03-uk-physical-games-market-suffers-13-4-percent-drop-in-2016

Ps4 will increase this year again
Bigger install base+ even more games

Yeah I agree, I'm amazed it was up in 2016 considering how third party titles underperformed.

2017 is going to be much bigger for software on both ps4/xbo.

keep growing baby.

Too bad if X1 lower even more it will open space for new gen efforts on MS even with Scorpio on the brink of launch

Pretty impressive for the PS4 considering the 3rd party offerings were weaker in 2016 than in 2015. I'm guessing it was because of the exclusives (PS4, Playstation, or console) that PS4 physical software remained up YOY.

3Rd party software  whas much bigger  then 2015,but mostly japanese

Bigger than 2015? Very doubtful because 2015 had Arkham Knight, Black Ops 3, Fallout 4, and Battlefront. Infinite Warfare sold much worse than BO3 even though it was the best selling title for 2016.

PS4 & 3DS up in software sales this year... good :)

Maybe in some games selling   lot but in 2016 there where a lot lot loooot more games.

And ya know.

Uncharted 4

uncharted 4 digital version covered the ground