Sony gambled on an increasingly digital future for gaming when it released the PlayStation 5, with an all-digital model launching alongside a more traditional unit equipped with a disc drive.
It seems the company may have been slightly premature though, as physical games have outsold digital on the platform.In new data from analysis firm Global Sales Data (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz), shows that physical copies of games sold at retail have consistently outsold their downloadable siblings, with boxed titles selling 51 per cent more than digital in the ten months from the PS5’s launch in November 2020 to August 2021.Perhaps surprisingly, the gap has actually widened over time, with more packaged games being sold.
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