Only 7 Physical PlayStation Games Have Sold More Than 100,000 Units This Year
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Despite outrage at Sony's shift towards a discless future, only seven PlayStation games have managed more than 100,000 physical sales in the US this year
Sony's planned shift away from producing physical discs for PlayStation might be unpopular, but new sales data has highlighted the stark business reality behind it.
Latest Physical Sales Data Proves The Format Is, In Fact, Dying
Oof... Big oof.When Sony recently announced it would be ending the production of physical media for the PS5 (and presumably the PS6) from January 2028, the gaming community was quite rightly up in arms.Yet despite the ongoing backlash, the actual data indicating how poorly physical media sells these days doesn't lie. And it's looking grim, indeed. According to Mat Piscatella from Circana, just two PS5 games sold more than 10,000 physical copies …
Guess the 7 PS5 games to have sold over 100k physically in the USA in 2026 so far
Per Mat Piscatella: 2 PlayStation video games sold more than 10k physical units in the US during week ending July 11, 2026. 7 have sold more than 100k physical units year-to-date.Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service Click to expand... If you throw a number like that out with no details it'll make me curious! Maybe you're the same way. Here's my attempt at guessing a list of seven...
How could PlayStation justify the end of the physical format from 2028? On PS5 they continue to sell games both on disk and digital, so no one explains that change in the face of PlayStation 6.For an analyst, it is because only 7 games have sold more than 100,000 copies in the US in the last year. However, it is not the situation of the rest of the world and there are many more countries. In essence, this person has used data from a single regio…
Only Seven PS5 Games Passed 100K US Physical Sales in 2026
Only seven PlayStation 5 games have sold more than 100,000 physical copies in the US so far in 2026, according to Circana Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor Mat Piscatella. Posting on Bluesky, Piscatella said that “2 PlayStation video games sold more than 10k physical units in the US during week ending July 11, 2026.” He added, “7 have sold more than 100k physical units year-to-date.” The figures are based on the Circana Retail Trac…
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