{"id":86895,"date":"2026-07-31T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86895"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:36:32","slug":"sonys-latest-ps5-sales-data-shows-digital-pulling-even-further-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86895","title":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s Latest PS5 Sales Data Shows Digital Pulling Even Further Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sony&#8217;s plans to embrace an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-digital future<\/a> are starting to gain ground, as the company has confirmed that 82% of all PS5 games,\u00a0microtransactions, and DLC\u00a0from Q1 2026&#8211;covering April 1 to June 30&#8211;were sold digitally. This is an increase of the previous ratio of digital games sold across the entire 2025 financial, which averaged 78%. It is worth noting that each quarter in that period had different numbers&#8211;83% in Q1 2025 FY, 72% in Q2, 76% in Q3, and 85% in Q4&#8211;so there&#8217;s still plenty of time to see what the average ratio is when the next three quarters are added in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That quarter also saw several big games launch for PS5, such as Starfield, Saros, and 007 First Light. While the numbers\u00a0point toward the inevitability of\u00a0a digital-only games marketplace future\u00a0for PlayStation, a section of the playerbase is still aiming to convince Sony to reverse course and keep offering physical games to some extent. Sony&#8217;s social platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/over-220000-people-petition-sony-not-to-kill-physical-playstation-game-discs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have been under siege<\/a> from a dedicated number of people who reply to every post with calls to keep physical games alive, and\u00a0a week-long\u00a0boycott of the company will kick off\u00a0later in August.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">&lt;img data-ref-id=&quot;1837295&quot; data-wp-on&#8211;click=&quot;actions.core.image.showLightbox&quot; style=&quot;cursor: zoom-in&quot; height=&quot;576&quot; width=&quot;1024&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PS5-sales-hardware.jpg?w=636&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s plans to embrace an all-digital future are starting to gain ground, as the company has confirmed that 82% of all PS5 games,\u00a0microtransactions, and DLC\u00a0from Q1 2026&#8211;covering April 1 to June 30&#8211;were sold digitally. This is an increase of the previous ratio of digital games sold across the entire 2025 financial, which averaged 78%. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":86897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86898,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86895\/revisions\/86898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}