Physical Games Represented Just 4 of Sales for PlayStation Last Quarter
The only category down year-on-year.
Sony's financials for Q2 of 2023 are here, and the report illuminates that physical games are a drop in the bucket for PlayStation these days. Sony Interactive Entertainment had a record-breaking second quarter in terms of revenue, pulling in ¥954.1 billion — up 32.38 per cent year-on-year. Of that total, physical games accounts for about ¥35.5 billion, which comes out to roughly four per cent. For comparison's sake, digital sales of full games on PS Store represents 21 per cent of total revenue.
This actually isn't an unusually low stat; physical games have been a small percentage of PlayStation's revenue stream for a good while now. However, what's interesting about it is that, in this record-breaking Q2, physical games is the only sales category that has decreased year-on-year. By that same measure, all other areas saw significant growth.
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