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VGP Giveaway Time!
Glitch is giving away a copy of Fire Emblem Divine Edition Nintendo Switch + her sticker to one lucky winner.
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Winner announced Monday Aug 31, 2026!
Here lies Sony
With no discs to hold
Their greed’s taken over
And a fever for gold
Silence their tactic
They said not a word
The backlash ensued
Their response was absurd
So come one come all
See for yourselves
The death of an empire
With codes on the shelves
But no one is buying
The all-digital lie
Their tombstone reads clearly
No Disc No Buy
#NoDiscNoBuy #OwnYourGames
#StopKillingGames
#PSBlackout
Just finished Mouse P.I. (3 trophies away from platinum) Fantastic game! Loved every second. Never would have played it if it didn't get a physical release as I do not do digital. @FumiHQ Not looking forward to 2028
VGP Glitch Giveaway Time! It's-a Me, Mario!
Glitch is giving away a Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 / Super Mario 3D All-Stars Bundle for the Nintendo Switch and her sticker!
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Winner announced Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026!
256 (and counting) physical PS5 games in my collection. Image a company looking at me and saying "you're not the customer we want anymore" and at the same time screwing over suppliers like @VideoGamesPlus_ sad state of affairs #nodiscnobuy
@DestinyFomo Pragmata is missing because I loaned it to a friend :)
we’ve sold 172,288,912 pizzas since PlayStation last posted
Harsh reminder:
Shuhei Yoshida, the previous Head of Playstation, cared a lot about the customer. He was the one who made sure the PS4 had physical shareable discs that you could lend to friends or buy/sell used.
Then one day, the then President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan kicked Shuhei Yoshida out of the position of Head of PlayStation in 2019 because Yoshida disagreed with his direction for the company.
In hindsight, Jim Ryan’s “direction” became Playstation’s obsession with live service. Yoshida presumably told Ryan that it was a bad idea, and turns out, it was.
With Shuhei Yoshida gone, Hermen Hulst took his place.
After that, Playstation changed - the gutting of Sony Japan Studios in 2021, censorship of Japanese games ramped up, the live service, and the increase in consumer-hostile decisions such as PSN+ price hikes, removing games and movies from your library…
And now the decision to abandon physical discs by 2028.
When you look back at what made Playstation start to rot, it always started when Sony Interactive Entertainment moved its operations to California…and having leadership who want to do everything in their power to get rid of what made Playstation special.
You will never get another Shadow of the Colossus, another Bloodborne or a Gravity Rush - and you have people like Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst to thank for it.
No matter how many times I listen to this, I cannot get over how incredible this sounds live!
閲覧数が日本の人口と同等になってるよ？
『無視して顧客の怒りがおさまるのを待つ』という手法は企業が最もしてはいけない誠実さの欠片もない行為だし、今回の暴挙に加えてますます失望したよ。
SIEも落ちぶれたものだね･･･まさかビッグテックの真似事で没落するなんて･･･。
株価が少し上がったくらいで調子に乗らないようにね？
その後で地獄が待っているのだから。
Los moderadores del subreddit de PlayStation están eliminando publicaciones que hacen referencia a las filtraciones de Insomniac Games de 2023.
En esos documentos filtrados se reveló que varios juegos de PlayStation vendían más copias en formato físico que en digital o, en algunos casos, que las ventas físicas eran prácticamente iguales a las digitales.
Did a little research into this "85% of games bought on Playstation are digital". So I decided to look at the EXACT wording of what that meant.
Spoiler: Its not "Out of 100 copies of Spiderman sold, 85% are digital"
Here's how they calculate it.
Digital Units sold, Divided by Total Units sold, times 100.
Straight forward right?
In Q4 of 2025, sony sold 74.6 million units in total, that is both Digital and Physical units.
But the "85% of all games bought are digital" has a HUGE skew to it. Why? Because there are THOUSANDS of DIGITAL only games that do not get a PHYSICAL release. Think the 5$-20$ indie titles or digital only ports of older games.
However, those digital sales are counted AGAINST the physical sales. Meaning? Even if EVERYONE who stopped buying Physical in the past 5 years, went out and bought one game a month? Digital will still dominate physical because (mostly) everything thats physical is also digital, but very little that is digital is also physical.
The Comparison is not fair and when its thrown around on social media its literally framed in a way for the stat to prove how dominant Digital sales are while excluding a number of factors. Doing so would be like comparing Your local Wal-Mart's stock to Amazon.
Not only that, but there are many digital only sales that are held that puts STEEP discounts on games that in-store simply cannot do. Of course there are some games that are on sale in-store that are not on sale digitally, but those digitally only games ALSO go on sale which the retailer has Zero access to because its digital only.
There's also digital incentives where buying the game digitally grants you more content vs buying it in store, driving more sales. Then, there are some games that release digitally, and then have a physical release MONTHS later; or, allow you to play the game a few days early.
If you wanted a more fair comparison? It would be "Digital media with a simultaneous Physical Release vs The Physical Release" Having this stat would reveal the true number. But even THAT number is missing details because that also doesn't include people buying the game second hand/Used from GameStop.
However, while Im sure that stat would STILL benefit digital sales, I would suggest and conclude that it wouldn't be "85%" as many people are suggesting.
Sources:
https://t.co/x93grZtkiS
Seen several quote #PlayStation's 78% digital full game sales, thus omitting important context.
That figure includes countless digital only releases, from back catalogue to indie games etc. Even Capcom revealed 84% of its sales were "older catalog titles", many of which are only available digitally.
So using such data is somewhat misleading.
To gauge REAL physical demand you need to look at splits of games that released both physical AND digital only. Thanks to the Insomniac leaks, we have such data on PS first party games.
Playstation Physical / Digital splits
Sackboy - 77% / 23%
R&C Rift Apart - 76% / 24%
Ghost of Tsushima DC - 71% / 29%
Demon's Souls - 70% / 30%
Miles Morales - 66% / 34%
Spider-Man - 66% / 34%
Returnal - 61% / 39%
The Last of Us 2 - 61% / 39%
Ghost of Tsushima - 51% / 49%
MLB The Show 21 - 39% / 61%
So per Sony's own internal data, 31/33 first party games from their chart sold more PHYSICAL than they did digital.
Uncharted 4 actually has an insane 83% physical split.
Granted it only covers through to a few months into 2022, but we can see from other more recent data, things haven't drastically changed. For example GSD data shows ~60% of Astro Bot sales across Europe were physical.
So what skews revenue and data more digital, beyond digital only releases and platforms? The answer is games with LIVE SERVICE components, especially multiplatform ones.
As you can see from Sony's internal data, MLB has the highest digital split, and it's a live service game.
Generally the highly popular live service or annualised games such as Call of Duty, NBA 2K, FIFA etc, have higher digital splits, as gamers are constantly launching them (often daily) and don't want to be constantly switching discs, thus skewing digital/physical splits.
It's very different to single player games which are shorter and have different play and consumer trends. So again, context matters.
Then there's a MASSIVE audience of gamers that aren't even accounted for in any of this data; the countless consumers that buy and sell used physical games, because they simply can't afford as many new games, but still buy/own consoles, accessories, games, services etc. Everything from poor parents, kids etc.
Ultimately, the data rejects the notion physical is dead or meaningless, even if digital accounts for the overall lionshare of revenue/sales, especially when you look at things with the proper context and/or focus on single player tentpole games, which is PlayStation's bread and butter.
Keep in mind platforms make a 15% licensing fee from third parties on physical games, while they get a 30% cut on digital.
Likewise first party lose a 30% cut to retailers on physical, while they keep all of the revenue on digital.
As I said before, this move to kill physical is more about PlayStation trying to make far more profit and squeeze away the last remnants of consumer ownership, control, flexibility and resale, and could have greater negative market ramifications.
Happy Canada Day @Sony @PlayStation
Rather than our employees and their families enjoying a relaxing and fun Canada Day, they are expressing concerns by messaging VGP management and ownership regarding how your decision to cease physical game production in 2028 will impact the company, their employment, and their lives.
Bravo 👏
The wait is over!
Our video content production has finally resumed with a new format: HOW PHYSICAL MEDIA WORKS
Since many people still believe everything needs to be downloaded, we kick things off with a demo for offline firmware updates via disc: https://t.co/V6cyyJaRCP
VGP Glitch Giveaway Time!
Glitch is giving away 10 copies of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition Nintendo Switch to 10 lucky winners (1 copy per winner)
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Winners announced Thursday, July 16, 2026!
GTA 6
Jordan McEwen, face model for Claire Redfield.
This man spent years putting Xbox on top as the ultimate system for mature and hardcore gamers.
He revolutionized game physics and helped showcase some of the most attractive and memorable female characters in gaming.
Now Xbox has become a childcare center where pronouns and feelings are more important than fun.
VGP Glitch Giveaway Time! Do A Barrel Roll!
Glitch is giving away a copy of Starfox Nintendo Switch 2 and the whole plush crew! Fox, Falco, Peppy, Slippy and her sticker!
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Winner announced June 25, 2026!
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