Amid worries about the disappearance of physical media as PlayStation prepares to discontinue discs in 2028 and Xbox is expected to follow suit, today we’ve got an interesting statistic on the breakdown of who is buying physical discs for which platforms. Apparently, only a little over 4 percent of all new physical video games sold in the U.S. this year were for Xbox.
According to Circana’s monthly report, 63 percent of new physical games sold this year have been for Nintendo platforms, while 32 percent were for PlayStation. When I asked analyst Mat Piscatella to confirm the remaining percentage for
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