Arstechnica: Physical console games are quickly becoming a relatively niche market

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brute said:

Physical games sell tens of millions of copies a year, likely even hundreds of millions, no way that is niche.
Plus, if we remove digital only games from the numbers, as well as PC, then I'd wager that physical still sell more than digital on Switch + PlayStation, and possibly even if Xbox is included there.

Excluding seems false especially when potentially some games that would have a had physical version in the past went digital only for its sequels.


@Op:   The only issue I have is with the word Quickly.   Using an adverb + time of duration it means basically nothing.

Still I remember TR anniversary becoming the first retail game getting an digital version on the Xbox 360(consoles) and we had threads and posts with people claiming that a future with +10% digital game share rate seems unrealistic.