From Circana’s retail tracking service – In the US in 2023, physical spending on software for Nintendo platforms accounted for more than half of total physical software spending.
From Circana's retail tracking service – In the US in 2023, physical spending on software for Nintendo platforms accounted for more than half of total physical software spending. Physical spending on software for Xbox platforms accounted for less than 10% of total physical spend.
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) January 26, 2024
by Turbostrider27
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I’ve bought so many physical games on the Switch. lol. I love the little console.
Good. We can’t let physical media die or else we will stop owning our games. Plus they can just up the prices on digital games considerable. So keep physical media alive
This is why I find it so fascinating that people are crushing Microsoft for essentially getting out of they physical games market… Nintendo dominates it and has been for a while.
Safe to say switch 2 will have the option for physical games.
Probably because the storage space on Switch is so terrible.
No other company made their games tasty.
Maybe because most other platforms are just a code in a box or digital only?
Mat Piscatella: head guy
I get physical games for the switch, because it has been shown that nintendo games tend to hold their value.
Makes sense, Sony is slowly killing physical games on playstation and Xbox closed their physical games department yesterday.
It helps that they’ve been generally creating great cover art all generation, it definitely makes a collection of physical cases more fun
To the people that are saying this is proof physical media isn’t dying:
Physical media once accounted for 100% of sales.
The fact you dont gotta wait for the game to install and it does not take much space makes physical more valuable to me.