Only Seven PS5 Games Passed 100K US Physical Sales in 2026
Circana said only seven PlayStation games topped 100,000 US physical sales year-to-date as Sony faces backlash over its disc-production plan.
- Circana senior director Mat Piscatella reported only seven PlayStation games sold more than 100,000 physical units year-to-date in the United States, with just two titles exceeding 10,000 physical sales during the week ending July 11.
- Sony's announcement to end physical disc production by January 2028 triggered sustained fan pushback, with PlayStation supporters leaving over 12,600 comments on the Marvel's Wolverine trailer last week opposing the decision.
- Requiem's physical sales represented 27.8% of its 3.5 million total copies sold, while Sony maintains over 120 million active PlayStation users with 50 million PlayStation Plus subscribers across all platforms.
- Sony remains unmoved by the backlash, with analyst Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games, stating the company views digital as "just too lucrative" to reverse course.
- Piscatella's observation that "commenting is cheap" reflects analyst skepticism that online outcry will translate to market pressure, as the United States market's significance makes Sony's digital-first strategy economically compelling despite acknowledged consumer rights concerns.
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Industry analyst reports only 7 PlayStation games 'have sold more than 100,000 physical units year-to-date' in the US, as fans demand Sony kill its plan to end the production of discs
Senior director and video game industry advisor at Circana, Mat Piscatella, reports only seven PlayStation games have sold more than 100,000 physical units year-to-date in the USHe says two games "sold more than 10,000 physical units in the US during the week ending July 11, 2026"This comes as fans push Sony to reverse its plan to end the production of physical discsIn light of Sony's decision to retire the production of physical game discs, an …
Despite outrage at Sony's shift towards a discless future, only seven PlayStation games have managed more than 100,000 physical sales in the US this year
Sony's planned shift away from producing physical discs for PlayStation might be unpopular, but new sales data has highlighted the stark business reality behind it.
Latest Physical Sales Data Proves The Format Is, In Fact, Dying
Oof... Big oof.When Sony recently announced it would be ending the production of physical media for the PS5 (and presumably the PS6) from January 2028, the gaming community was quite rightly up in arms.Yet despite the ongoing backlash, the actual data indicating how poorly physical media sells these days doesn't lie. And it's looking grim, indeed. According to Mat Piscatella from Circana, just two PS5 games sold more than 10,000 physical copies …
Guess the 7 PS5 games to have sold over 100k physically in the USA in 2026 so far
Per Mat Piscatella: 2 PlayStation video games sold more than 10k physical units in the US during week ending July 11, 2026. 7 have sold more than 100k physical units year-to-date.Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service Click to expand... If you throw a number like that out with no details it'll make me curious! Maybe you're the same way. Here's my attempt at guessing a list of seven...
Only 7 PS5 Games Have Sold Over 100k Physical Copies This Year In The US
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