- PlayStation Maker Sony has confirmed that physical media make up only 3% of its game revenue
- PS5 models are no longer launched with a disk drive
- PlayStation 6 has been rumored to be all digital when launched
The topic of Game Preservation has been at the forefront of People’s Minds with the emergence of the Nintendo Switch 2 Game Key Cards, followed by Digital-Kun Xbox and PC releases. However, Sony has tried to keep physical PS5 Games on store shelves.
It could still be set to change with The company’s latest company report suggests that PS5 disk sales make up only 3% of Sony’s total game revenue.
As reported by EurogamerThis number was twice as much (6%) in 2020 – the same year the PS5 arrived with a disk drive included.
In the years ago, Sony has not only slimmed down PS5 by removing disk driven but has released PS5 Pro Sense Disk driving too.
It’s a bit ‘chicken and eggs’ when – stopped the PS5 mucus stopped players buying physical games, or did they stop buying them before Sony removed the disk drive?
In any case, the end result is the same, with the sale of physical media, which forms a very small part of its revenue. Given rumors that PlayStation 6 Could arrive without a disk drive, it doesn’t seem like Sony is ready to change this tale.
Digital software accounts for 20% of Sony’s game revenue, and it’s not hard to imagine the other major console producers seeing similar patterns.
We reported yesterday That another large third party title was about to change 2 on a game keys because its cartridges cap out at 64 GB of capacity, while Microsoft has long put digital codes in boxes, even for its first -party titles.
While having a digital version of a game may not appear as a huge difference at the present time, when newer consoles are here, it is likely to be harder to access games you have purchased on PS5. We are already seeing the challenges of live service games that shut down, and even their disk versions are made useless and some of them started just the last generation.
