- Mat Piscatella, senior director and video game industry advisor at Circana, reports that only seven PlayStation games have sold more than 100,000 physical units so far this year in the United States.
- It claims that two games “sold more than 10,000 physical units in the United States during the week ending July 11, 2026.”
- This comes as fans are pushing Sony to reverse its plans to end physical disc production.
In light of Sony’s decision to stop production of physical game discs, an industry analyst has reported that physical PlayStation games are not selling very well in the United States.
Last week, angry PlayStation fans took to the comments section of the latest Marvel’s Wolverine trailer, a new effort to push Sony to reverse its plan to end the production of physical discs from January 2028.
At the time of writing, the video has over 12,600 comments, with the vast majority being fans sharing their thoughts on the decision.
Now, in response to a report on the situation, Mat Piscatella, senior director of Circana and advisor to the video game industry, shared some interesting statistics on the state of physical game sales in the United States.
Writing on Bluesky, Piscatella said: “Two PlayStation video games sold more than 10,000 physical units in the United States during the week ending July 11, 2026.
“Seven have sold more than 100,000 physical units since the beginning of the year.” He also later clarified that the numbers didn’t just refer to first-party PlayStation games, but to “total PlayStation.” All games, all publishers, all PlayStation platforms.”
Faced with the fans’ reaction, the analyst added: “Commenting is cool, use your voice and all that. But commenting is cheap, [I don’t know] I don’t know.”
Which games these are is unclear, but global estimates shared earlier this month by Alinea Analytics (via GamesRadar) suggest EA Sports FC26, Resident Evil RequiemAnd 007 First Light could be among these seven. It is estimated for Requiem more specifically, 27.8% of its 3.5 million copies sold came from physical discs.
Sony has been notably silent in the face of the backlash, and according to several analysts, despite fan backlash, the PlayStation maker won’t reverse its decision because “digital is just too lucrative.”
“They of course knew what the reaction online would be like, and they are now waiting for this storm to pass,” said Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese video game industry consultancy Kantan Games.
“Sony has over 120 million active PlayStation users. Around 50 million people subscribe to PlayStation Plus. As an experiment, let’s say 500,000 people cancel in protest, that would only represent 1% of that activity – of course, not enough for Sony to start rethinking. Digital is just too lucrative.
He added: “Their current profit margin has been too low for years now, so they feel compelled to act,” Toto added. “From an economic standpoint, digital sales just make too much sense, especially for platform holders.”
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