An analyst revealed how many games achieved six-figure sales with their physical releases, and the number is quite surprising.
A well-known gaming industry analyst pointed out that relatively few physical PlayStation games are sold in the United States these days. Mat Piscatella, Circana’s executive director and gaming industry consultant, responded to a news story about the Wolverine trailer being flooded with comments protesting Sony’s decision to stop releasing new games on disc in January 2028. Piscatella acknowledged that gamers should voice their dissatisfaction but noted that sales figures for physical PlayStation games in the United States are nowhere near as high as they used to be.
“Only two PlayStation video games sold more than 10,000 physical units in the US during the week ending July 11, 2026. Seven have sold more than 100,000 physical units year-to-date. Commenting is cool; use your voice and all that. But commenting is cheap. I don’t know,” Piscatella wrote. He later clarified that the figures applied to all PlayStation games, not just first-party titles, and included every game, publisher, and PlayStation platform.
Three weeks have passed since Sony announced that physical disc games for PlayStation consoles would be discontinued starting in January 2028, and the decision continues to spark fierce backlash across numerous channels. New videos uploaded to the official PlayStation YouTube channel, including trailers for indie games that wouldn’t have been released on physical media anyway, continue to receive a flood of comments about physical discs. Regardless of their content, the videos receive more dislikes than likes.
In response to another user on Bluesky, Piscatella said that, in his opinion, the negative reaction to Sony’s decision to phase out discs is one thing, but the price of the PlayStation 6 may ultimately be the deciding factor in its sales success, not its ability to play physical games. Once the mass market realizes that the PlayStation 6 could cost more than a thousand dollars, he believes that the question of whether it will support disc-based games won’t even come up in the decision-making process.
