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Sorry, physical game collectors, but a digital only future looks more likely than ever as US physical sales have apparently halved since 2021

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It doesn’t look good for physical game collectors, because it seems that the sale for physical copies has been halved in the US in the past four years.

It has been quite clear that the game industry has been on its way to a digital only world for a while. Both Sony and Microsoft chose to release Disk-Drive-Less versions of their consoles with the PS5 Slim and Xbox Series S this generation, and the PS5 Pro, a Vlezier version of the more popular console, has no (although You can buy a separate). But thanks to some statistics from Mat Piscatella from Circana, it is a bit clearer how close we are a complete thing from the past to physical games – well, unless the Switch 2 has something to say about it.

The speed of decline in the spending of the American physical video samess software that was accelerated in 2024. The expenditure for physical video game software in the US has been cut in more than half since 2021 and is now more than 85% below the peak of 2008. We will see if Switch 2 can help this trend in 2025 to slow/turn around.

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– Mat Piscatella (@Matpiscatella.bsky.social)) January 24, 2025 at 7:24 pm

Piscatella shared a graph that you can see above, with the past 25 years of “American physical video game software consumer spending”, that is, showing from 2000 to 2024, how the expenses have changed over the years. It already peaked in 2008, but from that until last year there was a decrease of 85%. Not only that, since 2021 alone, physical game spending has been cut in more than half, which is clearly not a good sign for those of you who like to physically buy your games. It is worth noting that since 2019 the overall expenditure, which includes digital software, subscriptions, micro -transactions, etc., etc. has increasedSo it’s not as if the game industry is generally doing worse, good (just forget those fired)?

As noted by Piscatella, there is a chance that we will see a difference in 2025 with the release of the Switch 2, because Nintendo is generally a physical first company (we all know how bad it is online, and the eShop continues A nightmare to navigate), so things can look a little different in a year.

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