Likely a ton of copies on shelves for that type of game.

Honestly though. I was in Tokyo for a bit this past weekend and I went to a small store. I went to the game section and they were selling Switch and PS5. But what surprised me most was that they weren't selling any PS5 games. Only a small selection of Switch games too. Digital future is still increasing.

IIRC Momotaro a board game type deal so it's physical ratio is probably a lot higher than average.

With how low physical sales are on PS5 I can see smaller stores not bothering, similar to reports of places in Europe no longer carrying Xbox games.

Yeah of course I forgot to mention. No Xbox consoles or games on sale. The big stores in Akihabara have everything. But the small stores in the outskirts are giving up selling physical games.

Is why COMG! in Niigata essentially gave up their tracking of physical sales.

Probably I'm old fashioned, but I always thought having a good retail presence in games is also good advertising for the Console. 

Going into a store and see rows and rows of e.g. Console A games vs. a Small section of Console B games, gives the impression Console A has more support. So I would choose the Console A over Console B.

Me thinks having a small retail presence for games or not at all, hurts Console sales. But again, perhaps I'm just old fashioned.

I actually think Switch 2 will benefit from being maybe the last console with big physical presence. I except PS6 and next Xbox to be fully digital. The reason why Nintendo may benefit from that is that even though digital is already dominating, we still have holdouts the coming 10 years or so when it comes to people that enjoy physical media, and Switch 2 will benefit from those holdouts. In Japan for example there seems to be many old school gamers left that want to buy physical games and then sell the games when they've played them on the used game market to recoup cash.

You’re not, it’s a normal marketing strategy. I’ve worked for GameStop management for years and one of their source of income is based on square feet exposure and Sony has always been a big spender here.

Shelves spaces is still an easy and efficient way of doing promotion for your product, specially if the majority of the space is filled up by others products like 3rd party games.

My guess here is they’re simply outspent by Nintendo and they’re not fighting to much to change that. I’m pretty sure they are more competitive in other markets in that regard, even with a high digital ratio.

I'd say it's pretty up in the air with the PS6 for it being fully digital or not but even if it isn't physical will have a much lower presence for it compared to the PS5 so this is a good point. I think a Switch 2 digital only model is possible but either way it should have a physical presence similar to the PS5 since Nintendo is basically 5-10 years behind Playstation in regards to this sort of thing.