80% of sales of PlayStation games are digital
According to the latest published statistics, it seems that PlayStation fans have recently shown great interest in buying games digitally, so that almost 80% of game sales are on Sony's consoles have been digital in the last quarter. This information was taken from the users of the PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles, and compared to last year, it has apparently grown by 13%. Dropped. On the other hand, this statistic not only means that there is a wider market for games digitally, but with more current players switching to this way of purchasing, it is possible that this will affect the release of future games, as many Publishers and studios have also recently preferred to avoid the physical release of their games. In any case, offering games on Blu-ray discs and sending them to different regions also has its costs.
To be more precise, sales of games that are
purchased digitally on PlayStation consoles account for 79%
of their total sales. It turns out that this is the highest
percentage that has been provided in the statistics published by
Sony. These statistics and figures have been obtained from the
sales of games between April 1 (April 12) and June
30, 2022 (July 9). This means that the sales of recent
successful games such as Stray are not included in the
published statistics. Below are the game sales statistics
even in 2021.
However , published reports show that PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium services have not yet led to an increase in subscribers or even monthly active users. It should be noted that while this service has increased by one million subscribers compared to this time last year, it has decreased slightly in recent months and it remains to be seen whether PlayStation Plus will perform in the long run in competition with Game Pass. .
Finally, the published statistics are definitely not very pleasant for players who prefer to buy games physically, because the game industry and its market is moving more towards the digital sphere. Sony also released a version of the PlayStation 5 without an optical drive, and it remains to be seen whether we will see consoles that support discs in the next generation.
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