Sony just presented its financial results for the fiscal yr ending March 31, 2026, including the incontrovertible fact that the vast majority of PlayStation game sales are digital. In fact, this comes as no surprise since digital sales overtook physical between 2018 and 2019, within the PS4’s midcycle.
When the PlayStation 5 launched with an choice to don’t have any disc drive in any respect, it was evident the digital era had grow to be king. Now, Sony has reported a record-breaking 85% of PlayStation game sales were digital in Q4 of its last full fiscal yr.
That is a 2% increase from 2024, where Q1 and Q4 reported 80% of sales were digital. Its sales in gaming overall remained “essentially flat,” contributed to positively by the impact of foreign exchange rates, a rise in sales from network services, and a rise in sales of non-first-party titles.
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