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archbrix on 20 July 2026
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Conina said:
archbrix said:

Wasn't spending in 2025 down in general though?

Remember that the Switch 2 only launched halfway through the year, so not a lot of games yet to spend on and Switch 1 was on its way out. And the Xbox Series wasn't lighting up the charts either with software, so that leaves only the PS5. Whereas in 2008, you had the Wii, X360 and PS3 all tearing it up with software in addition to the DS and the PSP, all selling physical games almost entirely. So it's only natural that there would be a huge difference between those two specific years when you do also factor in that digital is much higher now on top of that.

It would be interesting to see the gradual decline of physical and rise of digital every year from 2008 to 2025 to get a better idea of how spending was distributed over the years.

According to Newzoo, spending was up in 2025 

https://newzoo.com/articles/global-games-market-2025

I guess what I'm thinking of is that console sales themselves were down in 2025, particularly the holiday.  My mistake.