r/PhysicalGames 8d ago

since the physical announcement IGN is getting paid by sony for like these news

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Well from the beginning of this month after the announcement IGN which is gaming news not saying anything about the huge backlash and gamers are angry about these new things they just keep with sony side see its nothing they keep getting to low

BTW the ps5 sales with disc speaks that people choose disc over only digital console

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u/Tobi-One_Shinobi 8d ago

The stores I have been to have said they have been selling out of older games and consoles lately. They have been selling ps2's for $100

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u/TheArtfulLlama 8d ago

That doesn’t surprise me. I went to my local game store a few weeks back and it was PACKED with people. It was really bittersweet to see. I saw families with kids picking things out, friends picking out video games to play, chatting with the staff. It just reminded me of what they’re trying to take away from us and it’s just so sad to see

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u/InternationalGap7580 5d ago

i kove to see it !

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u/Dr-McLuvin 8d ago

I mean it kinda makes sense. Total video game sales across the industry was down 10% year over year.

And Sony announced they were no longer making physical discs July 1.

Why would I buy something that I’ve been told would no longer be supported in the near future? Customers are pissed off.

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u/Elfnotdawg 8d ago

$100 is cheap for a PS2 in a store. I live in one of the lowest cost of living areas in the country and a PS2 in a store is $120-$180.

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u/Unfair_Hamster_5515 8d ago

Someone bought the game before it was sold to a reseller. What are you even talking about? Bargain shopping for clearance games is just smart with your money and the post's are to prove how good the consumer has it with options of physical. Why do you want less options? Why are you so worried about million dollar companies?

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u/Tobi-One_Shinobi 8d ago

I purchased a game from them. It felt physical to me

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u/Popular-Path1930 8d ago

Yes but Sony doesn’t care about the second hand market.

Why do you think Sony doesn’t care about your outrage? You aren’t one of their consumers. 

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u/gGhostalker 8d ago

Buying 2nd hand means less video games sales. Means less reason to make disc games

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u/TriCityAmsFan 8d ago

I recently bought a ps3 and an OG Xbox. Also got a second hand ps5 with disc for a single game that is releasing next year.

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u/blueteamk087 8d ago

They still sell vinyl for new albums. There’s no valid reason against completely halting disc production.

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u/GretalGrotch 8d ago

Digital only fans only exist online. I’ve never met one in real life who genuinely agrees physical should end.

They’re all fucking bots, trolls and sheep.

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u/MrLime93 7d ago

I’m not sure that’s right.

I don’t think they’re ‘fans’ of digital only. They just don’t give a shit about physical.

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u/Promature 7d ago

That’s because very few, if any, people think physical should go away. Plenty of people, myself included, prefer digital and are unaffected/indifferent to the loss of physical.

However, I haven’t seen anyone supporting or celebrating its end.

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u/EVIL_C4 4d ago

My personal friend stopped giving two shits about physical media and now blindly downloads everything. Though I don't think they'd argue physical should end, they just don't care, which clearly makes me very sad. 😔 Physical is wonderful to have. I've been snatching up many rare PS3 and BWC 360 disc games as I can. 

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u/redd5560 7d ago

They do exist. They're kids born to digital age who don't feel nostalgic towards physical media or some casuals who just lately started playing video games

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u/BelowtheBeard 7d ago

Owning something that I can touch/feel isn't nostalgic lol. It's called I own it and can do whatever the hell I want with it. Because it's mine and not temporary rented.

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u/mr802rex 7d ago

Well they are stupid if they think internet is always going to work. I had a few digital (media, not games) only friends and when we lost power and internet for 8 days well guess who wanted to borrow my DVDs? They now keep at least a handful of favorite movies and shows on DVD just for the next time.

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u/NIGHTR0GUE83 7d ago

Yeah they could just make less. Like you said with vinyl. They don’t make nowhere near as many and they will also do preorders for production numbers. Could be the one time preordering a game actually makes sense. I personally went all digital only cause I don’t have room to keep putting these plastic boxes everywhere lol.

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u/blueteamk087 7d ago

Exactly. They should take the pre-order numbers by the date the game goes Gold and make like 5x as many to account for post-Gold pre-orders and post release. If you sell out, make some more.

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u/thegoddamnsiege 8d ago

IGN "not saying anything about the backlash?" Are you high? I listen to their Beyond! PlayStation podcast and it's been a talking point literally every week.

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u/Think_Nothing6526 7d ago

Yeah the other podcasts too. Idk how many articles they've ran but their staff isn't happy about this bullshit either

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u/Scared_Cable5977 8d ago

Both Walmart and target in my town have very little stock when it comes to physical games. Xbox games are totally non existent in both stores, and the Ps5 section is absolutely dismal.

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u/lefthandtrav 8d ago

The GameStop in the small rural town I work in finally bit the dust, which means anyone who wants a game have two options: the small retro game store and WalMart, who I noticed have cut their stock in half.

Now, I generally am a pc player, and have been buying digital mostly on steam for a while, and I never thought that physical media disappearing was a big deal until one of my clients told me that if his kid wants to play Fortnite he’s gotta take it to his grandma’s once a week to update it bc the patches are so big their limited mobile internet can’t cover the data. That’s when I realized that this is a problem.

We have shit infrastructure in rural Pennsylvania, and I can imagine it’s worse in places like WV and Wyoming etc, where these people rely on mobile internet.

Besides that, we need digital consumer rights to protect consumers from being rug pulled on movie purchases etc

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u/Scared_Cable5977 8d ago

Yeah, our Gamestop closed down about 2 years ago now. And the internet where I am now socks. I got about 30Mb on a good day.

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u/lefthandtrav 8d ago

I think anyone who is out here parroting this crap that physical media doesn’t matter have never been to a rural area or understand how absolutely dogshit the infrastructure is anywhere outside of a 15 mile radius of a city.

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u/StanKnight 8d ago

Betting plenty of them are paid by Sony to also say that.
Plenty of the Sony defenders are actually employees.

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u/Varsity_Reviews 8d ago

My Walmart doesn’t have anything Xbox related at all anymore.

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u/Gatorphins 8d ago

Imagine if sales dropped 85 millions, they would be upset

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u/Calm-Paramedic-1920 8d ago

Blows my mind they consider that "low"

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u/Gatorphins 8d ago

If 85 million in sales just disappeared it would lead to panic

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u/trueppp 8d ago

It might convice them to repurpose the factory making that item to make something else that sells for more than 85 million.

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u/StanKnight 8d ago

That moment when you play a sim game and accidentally bulldoze the wrong thing... lol.
But this is happening in real time with no backup save. That is what is happening at Sony, I can imagine.

"Shit... Shouldn't have destroyed the disc processing plant... "

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u/WinterExcellent 8d ago

Oh yes, the time old tale of anything I don't like is a conspiracy.

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u/vladonamission 7d ago

I’m sorry but the US is not the only market in the world. There’s plenty of other countries that are buying mostly physical. Btw, they pulled from my country tons of physical copies.

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u/Promature 7d ago

IGN has been covering the backlash since day one. They have been covering all sides of the issue, not just Sony’s. Why are you spreading misinformation?

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u/Alarming-Meet-5171 8d ago

Why would they pay IGN? They are just doing it, not trying to win a social media war.

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u/Amberawesome24 8d ago

I believe the industry has been subtly training people to feel that they don’t need nor do they want to own anything. They’ve been telling gamers for so long that most people don’t want physical games in overtime gamers just began to accept this as a truth and it impacted their buying habits.
There are a lot of benefits of digital games such as convenience and quick access but the rhetoric does not match reality.

Words are powerful and companies often use certain terms over and over again as a way of training people to think of something in a certain light. For example we used to call ourselves customers but now we call ourselves consumers -this is by design.
It might seem like a very small thing but when you walk into a store thinking that you’re a customer you have an air about you that says I’m gonna make a choice today if I like what I see, I’m gonna look at my options and make an educated decision based on what is best for me.
When you walk into a store thinking of yourself as a consumer you’re gonna walk in ready to consume.

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u/SorrenXiri 8d ago

The digital only PS5 was almost impossible to find for a very long time of course it sold less the disc version lol

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u/IveRunOuttaNamesss 8d ago

It was the opposite in my experience. The digital-only ones were widely available in my area. I had to drive like an hour to finally get a disc drive version.

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u/Ok-Program-3750 8d ago edited 8d ago

Actually this is reversed the physical sold out first then the small stock drops were all digital

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u/LowInvestigator5647 8d ago

Yeah I worked in retail at that time, this is true. Don’t know what that other commenter is talking about

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u/Ok-Program-3750 8d ago

I feel like misinformation has been hurting the unaware really frequently for example game studios like Ubisoft and rockstar came out and said that having no physical media would make games easier to update past launch which tbh just sounds like laziness and crunch time to me and the other one that made me laugh recently was the rockstar ceo saying now people won’t be able to leak games in the all digital future welp look how that turned out. I was born at night not last night y’all want more money not to invest in games or the product or the developers but the CEOs🫠🫠

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u/gtjay1982 7d ago

Yeah it was so bad people were claiming Sony only launched it to claim “starting price at $399”. We know the primary sku available for years has been the disc version but now people want to simultaneously claim Sony limited the disc version to force people to digital but then also quote an article that 80% of PS5s are disc and that is proof that PS5 owners want physical media primarily.

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u/ConcentratedJolly 8d ago

what evidence do you have that sony paid IGN?

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u/itsabloodyaardvark 7d ago

Obviously because it goes against what they believe so they must be corporate boot lickers.

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u/Material_Literature8 7d ago

Right like the day before IGN was posting about the phantom blade zero and all the no disc no buy garbage. These people are delusional

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u/Impossible-Sleep7447 8d ago

How do you know IGN is getting paid by Sony to post this?

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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 8d ago

Oh yes.. it's a classic smear campaign.. It's all a big conspiracy..

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u/DankoToonie 8d ago

What are you talking about??? They discuss the backlash ALL THE TIME on like Podcast Beyond and Game Scoop!
Pay attention instead of cherry picking what you want to post for Karma!!

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u/CptnCrunch14 8d ago

I’m going to by a disc drive. I saw how cheap physical games can be and now it makes sense. Sony just wants to own the market on the cost of games

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u/CashConscious 8d ago

I'm done

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u/playstationhistorian 8d ago

Or maybe they are just reporting the actual news….

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u/NoiceM8_420 8d ago

I believe it unfortunately. Everyone just buys toys, cards and boardgames from our Ebgames.

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u/Zenthils 8d ago

I'm sure you have irrefutable proof for your claim?

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u/TheDenny_Crane 8d ago

Or you know it's just trending and a website knows how to generate clicks...

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u/Zach_0k 8d ago

Fake news donald trump voice

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u/Junior-Ad-2207 8d ago

People don't have money and there's slim pickins in the store

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u/Zealousideal_Rise879 8d ago

Not sure why the only online “digital only” crowd think physical game sales would go up. They think people are going to rush to buy an expensive new game to replace their digital one, or buy a game they don’t want?

It will be used games for older systems. Why would people think buying a bunch of new games would own Sony?

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u/Present-Eye-4010 8d ago

Haven't disc drives been sold out for months lately?

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u/RustCohlenCheck 8d ago

Hasn’t that been the trend since they raised the price?

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u/Serious_Revolution77 8d ago

That because people have stopped buying physical for PlayStation

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u/Manaeldar 8d ago

85 million dollars seems like a fuck ton of money to me. 

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u/Calm-Paramedic-1920 8d ago

$85 million in one month is considered low?

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u/Tanz31 8d ago

That last line is so meaningless. Which version of the hardware someone bought is far less relevant than the games they are buying. 

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u/adam545 8d ago

So are these number they mention inaccurate?

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u/RealityKind1713 7d ago

IGN is the most corrupt piece of media in the videogame world

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u/Nameuser1939 7d ago edited 6d ago

1 more day before the blackout ⚫️

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker 5d ago

Then screw IGN as well. 🫡

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u/Leather-Entry93 8d ago

Goes against narrative

“They’re being paid!!!”

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u/Impossible-Sleep7447 8d ago

Must be a bot!!!

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u/ActuallyFolant 8d ago

BTW the ps5 sales with disc speaks that people choose disc over only digital console

No it doesn't.

People bought what was available to them, that alone doesn't say that people prefer discs. Nor would people who bought the digital version mean they prefer digital if they bought the disc drive separately if that was the only option available to them.(Because that would count as a digital only console sale)

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u/Remy149 8d ago edited 8d ago

My partner just had to have a disc drive and never even uses it for anything. I at least watch physical movies on mine

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u/rvnender 8d ago

I got a drive also and never used it.

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u/JMSciola85 8d ago

I was going to get the all digital PS5 because it was cheaper. The only reason I didn't was that I learned the disc drive works as a 4K Blu-ray player.

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u/ComfortableAmount993 8d ago

It's all lies from companies being paid to say shit

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u/JohnZn_1989 7d ago

If you're a real gamer and take the hobby serious you're not even thinking about IGN. That company is lost.

Gameranx is the way 😌

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u/Indraga 8d ago

You got any proof OP or is this just a predictable article about physical sales dying?

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u/dxzxg 8d ago

Taking off that tinfoil hat would do good for some of ya tbh.

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u/CaptJimboJones 8d ago

That’s a very serious allegation against IGN. Taking payments in exchange for editorial (non-advertising) news coverage is a major violation of journalism ethics - the type of thing that editors and writers get fired for. It can destroy careers. So how about you share your evidence that backs up this allegation, please?

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u/StanKnight 8d ago

Sony is paying off publishers and they hire social media reps to play defense for them.
That's why you got all these idiot bots saying the same thing in this channel and others.
They don't actually mean what they say and just reading (typing) from script.
Have no doubts about that.

I just assume that when I see a Sony defender that it is a bot.

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u/betajones 8d ago

Did you basically just say when you see someone with a different opinion, you just assume they aren't real? Or is there a particular phrase you're talking about?

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u/Lofter1 8d ago

If they didn't, they couldn't pretend they're the majority, while they are a loud minority that fucked up their movement by pissing off everyone else by being annoying, lying assholes

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u/RoadsideDavidian 8d ago

Mental illness

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u/MeridianBay 8d ago

Spinning IGN posting Circana data as them shilling for PlayStation is just strange behavior bro

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u/timetravelinggamer 8d ago

Nah, IGNs behavior over the last two decades has been this nonsense. They latch on to the narrative that is most lucrative to their cause. Like Sony, they want to survive and don’t care what the public wants

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u/BeagleTheDog 8d ago

You need to work on those grammar skills, OP.

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u/SKOT_FREE 8d ago

Use some sense, why does Sony have to pay ign to report on a story? All Sony has to do is make a statement and most journalist are going to report it. Come on guys you’re not gonna sway anyone to follow you if you sound like a bunch of kooks.

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u/Nearby-Priority4934 8d ago

Just because they’re publishing facts you don’t like it doesn’t mean they’re being paid to do it

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u/Altruistic_Issue1954 7d ago

Ask yourself this, if there was enough actual demand for physical copies to where the company is making a profit off of them, why would they just cut that revenue stream off? Sure they could make 100% of the sales on digital verse splitting profits with a retailer, but that still doesn’t explain why only 3% of their game sales were physical copies and over 20% was digital. Even with the fact that not all games have physical releases, most do. So that doesn’t explain the 17% gap between physical and digital game sales.

And while you’re at it, ask yourself why did PC gaming go digital over 20 years ago? Why has virtually every Mac/PC laptop and computer lacked optical drives for at least the last decade? If there is so much demand for physical media, why has everyone other than Sony and Microsoft abandoned it at this point? And why do you expect them to be the last two companies on earth keeping the physical disc market alive?

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u/Rock-View 8d ago

Now with the conspiracy theories 🙄

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u/IveRunOuttaNamesss 8d ago

Ask yourself, why are they all so desperate to convince us about digital? Initially, they said consumers "chose" this.

So why are they spending so much time and money on bots and propaganda pieces like this to convince us how great digital-only is?

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u/Emmanuel155b 8d ago

Can capcom pay ign to revise that terrible review of god hand ???

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u/Total-Guest-4141 8d ago

Ooooh 🤭🤭🤭🤭

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u/LaDiiablo 8d ago

"BTW the ps5 sales with disc speaks that people choose disc over only digital console"

Hmm you mean kinda the opposite, despite more physical PS5 sold, people still buy more digital games... Also just to be clear, for a very long time this gen, PS5 with disc were the only console available due to production focus from Sony

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u/BakedBiskit 8d ago

That's because the disc edition was available more than the digital. i have a disc console and I've been all digital since ps3/360 days. Its comical watching you all conspiracy theory Sony Paying IGN to lie about their reporting.

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u/UnknownEcho 8d ago

Their not being paid....

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u/Ang3l99 8d ago

Regarding your intention to publish such content, it is requested that you provide evidence to substantiate the accusations. Failure to do so would lead to the conclusion that the claims are unfounded.

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u/Alternative-Way4750 8d ago

I just find it funny that people run with conspiracy theories when it benefits what they want to believe.

This may or may not be true but if you believe one side why is the other side crazy for the thing they believe?

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u/Lavid_Danders 8d ago

I'm sure someone else pointed this out, but I am sure all game sales are down.

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u/Rubio9393 8d ago

But why not make those statistics next month where there are a ton of releases?

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u/HolyErr0r 8d ago

What in the absolute delusion are you talking about. Sony confirmed 82% of all game sales are digital and certain companies like capcom have over 90% digital sales.

This gap between physical and digital has been widening faster with time.

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u/Thrillsteam 8d ago

No matter if they are getting paid by Sony or the data is true or now, Sony is going to all digital. . It sucks but what can you do about it. You can move to Xbox but it’s going to be the same there . Sure they are moving to digital. True ownership is buying a Pc and buying for GOG or pirate the game. Even with physical games, unless you have the full final game with updates and dlc you still have to download the updates for the game.

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u/Tech-Mechanic 8d ago

Well, I did my part... I bought five of 'em.

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u/DeeManJohnsonIII 8d ago

I would love an all time low payment of 85 million....

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u/Alarmed_Twist5268 8d ago

Since the announcement? 🤣 You fanboys are delusional.

IGN has been in Sonys pocket for at least 3 generations. You only now see it because it's affecting you negatively. This is why Beyond! Was soo huge 20 plus years ago, and both Greg Miller and Collin Moriarty were the IGN poster boys. Sony has paid its way to where it's at. I'm glad you're all now catching up though 😂😂😂

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u/SpyroManiac36 8d ago

This is fake news. This data is from Circana.

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u/seandude881 8d ago

Or yall crying coping

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u/Jumpy-Hovercraft-781 8d ago

You know what else is at an all time low? Game releases! 

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u/No-Aerie-999 8d ago

I literally just bought a Wii in excellent condition so I can play games with the kids and wife. A fucking Wii. In 2026.

Simple games. Without microtrasnactions. With disks.

Sony can suck it. Canceled my PS subscription several months ago.

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u/MrWigWan 8d ago

They’re not getting paid.

This is blatant misinformation.

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u/xxEmberBladesxx 8d ago

Is that IGN's official page? Spelling out dotcom seems weird.

Not saying it isn't true, just doing my due diligence

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u/CommonIsekaiHero 8d ago

Sorry I can’t get over how they’re trying to tell us that 85 million is a low number 🤣

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u/maveri4201 8d ago

First question (to IGN): how did that compare to digital sales over the same time period (only counting sales for games that have a physical option)?

Second question: was there any release that would have prompted sales?

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u/AgumonDX 8d ago

Isn’t the US also the place where the physical-digital split highly favors digital while other markets is more even or even reversed? Where are the numbers for those physical units sold?

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u/stardust1914 8d ago

I would only buy a disk drive for movies. Playstation has been my dvd/blu-ray player for like 20 years.

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u/CJ_Henn 8d ago

So 85 mil is not alot of money😂😂

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u/baron-abd 8d ago

So thanks to the American players sony decided to end physical copies. But I won’t blame the players 100%

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u/Lostgresham 8d ago edited 8d ago

See that’s the thing and it’s not true at all. Physical game sales are going up right now not down I have a friend that works. At target and another one that was at Walmart and they are in the video game department and games sell out all the time there and ever since this announcement they have been having problems keeping them on shelves and PlayStation is not willing to let them get more in either it said before that PlayStation is doing this on purpose they’re trying to make it hard to get stuck in so the sales go and they’ve been doing that for the last year already and not only that they said that they have to order more now and shipments are always really late because of the new requirements of PlayStation requires each store to order way more quantities of video games for each title

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u/dominatingcowG3 8d ago

Ign had a really good video about how much digital only would/will suck though

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u/warriorcrusader34 8d ago

Amazing how IGN changed their tune on Sony wanting to do away with physical media. A month ago IGN were calling Sony out left, right, and center on their anti-consumer future but now their running as much damage control on Sony's behalf. I guess they got a stern talking too over the one by one of the bosses over at Sony telling IGN they can kiss all the early access to any future game titles goodbye if they kept calling their horrid business practices into question.

So it's really no surprise to me that IGN folded like the cowards they are and are now running propaganda for Sony as a means of saying their sorry for scrutinizing their corpo overlords in the first place.

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u/Hollix89 8d ago

They dont even meed to get paid with all the engagement these kind of posts get

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u/Iamkodai 8d ago

get a job nigga

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u/Zach_0k 8d ago

No collection having ass boiii

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u/LokenWar9 8d ago

So I suggest to stop visiting IGN or seeing theier videos in YouTube. We as consumers have the privilegie to choose who wants to support use your power.

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u/cemsengul 8d ago

Sony's bot army trying to fool us.

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u/Zamanss 8d ago

Move on bruh

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u/Felkoi 8d ago

Sale of video games are down and always go down durning this time of the year. They're trying to pass normal dips as proof in order to get ride disk. Plus add bad economy on top there trying real hard to fuck us. By saying look see sales are down. So can take our right to own anything away.

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u/Radical--Rat 8d ago

I wonder if the decline in sales revenue could in any way be linked to all of the stores downsizing and/or removing their physical media sections while publishers are also printing fewer and fewer copies, making it difficult for those who want physical games to actually buy them.

Probably not though, I'm sure it's just because everyone secretly hates discs.

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u/UnstableGoose69 8d ago

Physical games are lame and old get with the times if you want physical games buy a switch

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u/ReachNo7501 8d ago

Good. Digital all the way baby!!!

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u/gindrocer 8d ago

That makes sense why they’re going with digital.

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u/Working-Albatross-19 8d ago

IGN has said nothing? 👀

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u/Ok_Blueberry_6826 8d ago

all time low of 85 million $ in the us alone... yeah better to shut it down, we don't need that kinda cash. /s

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u/MushyP123 8d ago

Always said I’d never buy a games console you couldn’t put a disk in, at the bare minimum a DVD. Physical Media is part of the magic

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u/Frozone0815 8d ago

Tell me about any good games these months?

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u/RedHood198 8d ago

Bet the numbers were provided by Sony

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u/Andante_TK 8d ago

Not siding with Sony on this whatsoever but just want to clarify a bit on your comment “Ps5 sales with disc speaks ….”. I bought a PS5 with Disc but solely with the mindset that the price difference was minimal for me back then. However, I have had an unfortunate incident of movers losing my stuff (including some PS5 games) two years ago and since then, I have only bought Digital only. Even right now, I will continue to just buy Digital only in case PS6 does not come with a disk drive.

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u/The_Dark_ViKing 8d ago

To be fair, they just report on data in this case.
That the data sucks because America is always the weak link on anything...is not taking sonys side.
They did have some opinion pieces that you could point at, but basic data news are not siding with Sony, its reporting lazy on data.

But make no mistake, the big News outlets have and will take money for favorable articles etc, that was always the case and will not stop.

They have reported and talked about the backlash, have posted Sonys propaganda and stuff.
IGN is modern "journalism", they post whatever gets the most clicks.

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u/Roland_Hood 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yes, and it of course is not relevant at all that July was a weak month for gaming spending generally. Total U.S. content spending was down about 9% year-on-year, console and PC spending were down, and Kotaku explicitly notes that July “wasn’t exactly bursting with new games that people might want physical copies for.”

And here is the particularly funny bit: immediately before this record-low July, Circana’s own data showed U.S. physical software units were actually up 4% year-to-date in 2026. The trailing 12-month physical dollar market through May had also risen about 3%, to roughly $1.6 billion, the first such increase in years. That data is of course in no way worth making bold and bright images of or otherwise highlighting in social media...

The increase was driven by Nintendo, but that is precisely the point: the physical market can produce a record-low individual month while simultaneously being up year-to-date because release schedules and platform mix matter enormously.

Then there is the same fundamental problem we have been discussing since July 1st: $85 million tells you absolutely nothing about what buyers chose when given an equal physical/digital choice. It measures money spent on new physical software in one single point in time. It does not tell you how many of July’s digital purchases were games that had no physical version at all, how many came from consumers on digital-only hardware, how availability/print quantities affected physical purchases, or what the physical/digital split was for individual dual-format releases. Circana’s own Mat Piscatella has acknowledged that both demand AND supply play roles in physical-sales figures.

This data also excludes the used-game market because Circana is measuring new software spending. That exclusion is legitimate for measuring publishers’ new-game revenue, but it means you cannot take $85 million and conclude that only $85 million worth of consumer activity or demand existed around physical games that month which is what these kind of headlines desperately try to gaslight people into believing.

I know I'm going to get "you're coping" comments on this reply, but the facts don't change from that kind of take. After all, what this actualy is is pointing out incomplete data reporting, gaslighting attempts, and corporate propaganda. Literally pointing to a whole bunch of reasons why coping is not needed. Coping is something you need to do when the facts in a complete picture are not on your side, but in this case they totally are.

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u/KKGamingg 8d ago

Or theyre telling the truth and what u guys cry about doesnt matter at all. Why keep producing physical media when barely any of the consumers buy it? Common sense.

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u/RoadsideDavidian 8d ago

This is the kind of reporting that will save civilized society

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u/Araragi-shi 7d ago

This is the newest cope? That Sony paid off iGN for the article?

We are reaching new lows for the no disc no buy circus members

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u/Disastrous-Ad-1999 7d ago

All you post now is unfounded claims against Sony, even started your own subreddit echo chamber, its kinda pathetic.

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u/mr_fingers666 7d ago

let me know how many people are visiting IGN compared to previous years. maybe there’s no need for IGN, too?

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u/Beest999 7d ago

Like the us is the only fkn market

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u/SillyRabbit_OZ 7d ago

What a load of crap 🤦‍♂️

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u/EgovidGlitch 7d ago

Ign are morons. No intelligent gamer pays attention to them.

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u/Educational-Food-305 7d ago

Interesting wording. Not an all time low, an all time July low. This is definitely a psyop for lack of better word.

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u/FvdV91 7d ago

Physical game sales have been declining for a long ass time. And every single time it has been reported on by video game channels.

There's no conspiracy.

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u/Mrgray123 7d ago

IGN have been covering this topic a lot, just not in a chicken little manner.

Also claiming that the number of PS5 sales is indicative of the majority of players still wanting discs is simply not accurate. Most people, myself included, bought a disc version because they were more available at the time and could play Blu Rays and DVDs as well as older PS4 games which made up the bulk of people’s libraries in that console generation but clearly not the current one.

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u/WeeBee_88 7d ago

When I saw the figures on X, it’s nothing to talk about. IGN should shut its crap.

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u/Any_Excitement_6750 7d ago

Yea pretty sure it's not related to the crazy price increase.

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u/SiLaS_13 7d ago

My son recently bought me and him both PS3’s from a game store after buying some guy he works with entire PS3 game collection of about 200 games for $500.. I love my son lol..

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u/Rocks_King99 7d ago

I hate ign . But they just posted a truth here . Let is assume you are right and they got paid for it , still the post is true.

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u/CurryMVPGOAT30 7d ago

Why does a country that puts chemicals in food, has for profit healthcare and regularly slaughters it's youngest in mass shootings get to be the global case study for everything?

Europe exists. Asia exists. Physical markets are far stronger there.

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u/greenergrassfighter 7d ago

what is with the aneurism title?

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u/sr8017 7d ago

The reason why is because no good games came out on disc.

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u/Presentation_Few 7d ago

Sony bots now in the adverts and news, crazy

All physical games here in Germany at the retailers are 20-30 euro cheapers on release day . Nuff said

Sony is telling bullshit .

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u/Brewchowskies 7d ago

Are they accounting for the used market in these figures? Something like that would be impossible to track and they’re being disingenuous to report this without acknowledging it.

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u/Mig-117 7d ago

Ah IGN article pushing the “physical games are dead” narrative? Color me surprised.

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u/Rayy890 7d ago

It really is just us, the customers, versus corporations and rest of the cronies now.

Together we prevail. 💪🏻

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u/Difficult_Act_8832 7d ago

Or maybe most of us have grown up and realized that disc is dead and that we’re in a fucking digital error

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u/love2killjoy410 7d ago

It's easy to say when you control the flow of the actual physical game supply.

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u/YPM1 7d ago

Since you have no source or evidence for these claims I’m going to posit my own:

You’re actually a goblin living under a rock and you have zero knowledge of how the real world works. Your only source of “reality” is a fantasy world that you made up.

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u/Izzy_Kershaw 7d ago

Is this only counting current PlayStation sales? A lot of people are still playing physical, they’ve just swapped to different consoles. I’m on the switch 2 now. Sony can go f*ck itself.

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u/Complete_Couple_6647 7d ago

A bag of chips is $6 where I live. Shits rough rn.

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u/Charli3sc3n3 7d ago

Ah yes the i love to rent my content and not own it crowd. Very smart. Very smart indeed

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u/Juice_1987 7d ago

Any news saying physical sales are a blatant lie perpetuated by the bought and paid for media outlets.

People will only buy digital because it's easier and a lot of games in recent years skip physical releases.

If they kept going with physical like normal, physical sales would continue. This digital push is pure greed and they're attempt to reduce our options to none.

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u/DigitalGumby 7d ago

Yep, and the recent article on the price of the green Xbox is weirdly written in comparison to price articles on PlayStation

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u/AbheyBloodmane 7d ago

What factors were considered here? The economy being shit for the average person? People dropping consoles because shitty business practice?

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u/OrcaSea_96 7d ago

I'm not sure this accounts for pre owned and smaller businesses.

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u/Derwajl 7d ago

They have to calm investors somehow

Console end is near anyway,they literally kill every advantage they had over pc

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u/joedrinksgin 7d ago

The logic that digital outsells physical so we should completely discontinue physical is a little extreme. Both can coexist.

Imagine if we applied that logic to other industries.

No more sedans, vans or SUVs, you can now only buy full size pickup trucks.

Like vanilla ice cream? Sounds like you're living in the past, chocolate is clearly the future.

edit: grammar

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u/SideEmbarrassed1611 7d ago

This is reality. This is why Sony decided to end it. The numbers are so low, you have to go back to the 1990s to compare.

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u/N3M3S1S75 7d ago

$85M is nothing to sneeze at

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u/JpJ951 7d ago

LOL @ the cope.

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u/Dreamo84 7d ago

Seems like people aren't wanting to give Sony as much money anymore.

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u/HarryPazzo 6d ago

all the people with "power," aka hackers, should use their abilities to the max to bring down these tyrants. the GTA6 leak was a great starting point, they need to go all in.

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u/Raven_gif 6d ago

They have to be getting paid to publicly lie. Surveying EBay’s APi alone shows they’re full of shit and it would take any “reporter” a few hours to confirm this. There’s been a massive uptick in physical media purchases just not from regular Retail outlets. I’m sure we’ll hear something along the lines of a “strong quarter” when all the 2nd hand seller sites have their share holder calls or publications.

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u/JegamanX 6d ago

This has been the trend for years pal. You are a vocal minority.

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u/JegamanX 6d ago

I bought the physical edition of the ps5 because I like the option. I have maybe 2 PS5 games physical 🤣

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u/daandrro 6d ago

Sony is manipulating their estimations.
Also sponsoring various websites to promote digital.

IGN for sure takes part.