deliriousdreams

Parts and Projects.

Strider?

Something something disco inferno.

You seem to be under the impression that I am defending Sony or other game sales distributors who are getting rid of physical media. That is not what is happening here.

I agree it’s shitty. I am pointing out the trend, not trying to mount a defense for a corp.

Video game companies still sell millions of physical copies of games every year, but that’s not where they make the bulk of their money. As Sony’s latest corporate report shows, physical game sales for PlayStation 5 and PS4 are practically a rounding error on a rounding error, and the number just keeps going down. The total percentage of revenue from physical software sales is now half of what it was before the PS5 launched.

Edit: I would also like a source for the 60% of games being physical because that’s not what I found when I looked it up and if it’s based on 2023’s data it’s not accurate to today’s market.

https://twicethebits.com/2025/06/19/the-shift-to-digital-gaming-why-physical-sales-are-declining/

The crazy thing is, all gaming sales are dropping and I think they’re really trying to keep profits up with sales declining by forcing people like you and I who buy physical media to go digital. Forcing people to go digital means they can eliminate manufacturing of physical media, but it also means they can eliminate the resale market and sale market when physical stores want to liquidate old stock to receive new stock. That and the subscription model are a win for them to the detriment of consumers.

As gaming software sales have dropped significantly over the lifespans of the PS4/PS5 vs the overall sales of the PS3, it becomes apparent that digital game sales are winning in this day and age.

In 2019 the physical software sales for PlayStation were 6% of their revenue. That number has decreased year over year and what they are trying to do is make up the difference by shunting people to subscription services like PS+. We knew this already. This data has been spread out over several articles especially over the last 2 days.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-only-made-3-percent-of-its-money-from-physical-games-sales-last-year-decline-comes-amid-rumors-the-ps6-will-have-a-detachable-disc-drive.1298754/?__cf_chl_f_tk=Yoi4Otjfg4PCM6UxPYx0.9qVGrSBt1EtIb6ar5y7J2c-1783185677-1.0.1.1-ocB6TpBYux8vHfjbxBRohy1usls7Qm.rQyZu.CNjtDk

if you need real data check retail: “With $11.6 billion generated in 2008 and $1.5 billion in 2025 that means new physical video game sales have fallen 87 percent in the last 17 years”

https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox/xbox-pc-game-pass-crackdown-breaks-family-setup

They changed it. Then they changed it back after some outcry and blamed it on a bug.

The point stands.

I’m going to suggest that they can already do this.

We know that Xbox won’t let you use a second account to play games you purchased on your original account on the same device. One way to get around this was to use physical disks. But there’s no stopping them from modifying the OS to read a disk already registered with one account and prevent that disk/key from being used on another account.

They are taking a shortcut though (probably to cut out the resale market) and just doing away with physical disks (just like Sony).

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/30/joniah-walker-found-safe-disappearance/90757956007/

USA today article has some more details including that she sent texts to her therapist after she was last seen on a neighbors ring camera with a large backpack, and the messages “indicated she had run away”. Which certainly explains why the police didn’t consider her a priority (they almost never do if the person decided to leave consensually and there’s no evidence of coercion, or immediate danger).

There is nothing in the article about the conditions of her discovery nor any further detail about her disappearance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/30/joniah-walker-found-safe-disappearance/90757956007/

And doubled down then changed their comments as if the way back machine doesn’t exist in order to backtrack without having to admit they were wrong.