ITS OVER Sony Interactive Entertainment to end physical game disc production in January 2028

[KLXVER]

haxxiy said:

KLXVER said:

I love people coming out of the woodwork to make the numbers look bad for physical. Not understanding that all that will do is further convince the people who are already on board with a digital only future and nobody else. Just non gamers looking at some data and trying to do damage control for billion dollar companies. So only 7 Playstation games sold over 100K physical. Not by how much more, just over that amount. Making it look like they didnt sell much more than that. I guess Ghost Of Yotei must have been a huge failure then since 35% of sales were physical. So that game sold like 300K...

Power laws are a thing, though.

We can say with near-certainty that most of these seven games aren't exactly setting the world on fire, and much worse still, that the games around the 25th aren't even crossing 10K, and further down they are probably getting under 1K very quickly.

The ceiling is extraordinarily low and so the bottom is very deep.

Those 10K numbers are what some games sold in one week. Not lifetime sales.