| Otter said: I don't think it's weird, Playstation knows people are going to rush to buy physical in reaction to the news. There's no impact there if everyone is waiting day one to purchase their latest title, it actually tells them to continue on business as usual. If they feel it's hurts their wider business however (underperformance) and causes enough friction with their core market to break the bond then they are more likely to react. So far from the engagement I've got on the topic in threads I imagine people will continue consuming Playstation content as per usual, so I don't think there's going to be any movement here. |
I guess I wonder.
If people who buy physical just don't show up for Wolverine, they could also take the opposite lesson as just "ah clearly people aren't buying physical and Wolverine is just a bad seller."
There are plenty of times where companies take absurdly dumb lessons away from something. A lot of execs are wildly disconnected from the market. It's also why you frequently get "people must be sexist, and that's why this game failed. No other possible reason."
I think outright stop buying digitally and buying more physically makes more sense. If Wolverine sold 80% physically, I think that would be substantially more telling for Sony, as opposed to Wolverine "only" 2 million copies digitally instead of the 3 million copies digitally + physically it might have sold otherwise.
Last edited by the-pi-guy - on 09 July 2026
