- PlayStation Sony manufacturer has confirmed that physical media represent only 3% of their game income
- PS5 models are no longer launched with a disk drive
- It is rumored that PlayStation 6 is all digital when it is launched
The theme of the preservation of the game has been at the forefront of people’s minds with the advent of Nintendo Switch 2 Game Key Cards, which follows from the Xbox and PC launches only digital. However, for your credit, Sony has tried to keep physical PS5 Games on store shelves.
Even so, that could be configured to change with The last corporate report of the company suggesting that PS5 record sales represent only 3% of Sony’s general game income.
As reported by EurogamerThat figure was double (6%) in 2020, the same year in which the PS5 arrived, with a disk unit included.
In later years, Sony has not only lost the PS5 eliminating the disk drive, but has launched the Ps5 pro sans Disc Drive too.
It is a bit of ‘chicken and egg’, so did the PS5 put the thinnest players of the players who bought physical games or stopped buying them before Sony removed the disc unit?
In any case, the final result is the same, with the sale of physical means that constitute a very small proportion of their income. Given rumors that the PlayStation 6 It could arrive without a disk unit, it does not seem that Sony is ready to change that narrative.
Digital software represents 20% of Sony’s game income, and it is not difficult to imagine that the other important console manufacturers are seeing similar patterns.
We report yesterday That another large third -party title was changing 2 on a game key card because its cartridges crown at 64 GB capacity, while Microsoft has been putting digital codes in boxes, even for its first part titles.
While having a digital version of a game may not seem like a big difference today, by the time there are newer consoles here, it is likely to be more difficult to access the games you bought in PS5. We are already seeing the challenges of live service games that go out and even their record versions become useless, and some of those started the last generation.
