• ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    From Mat PIscatella of Circana (tracking US sales data, Piscatella specializes in video games) on Bluesky:

    Through May 2026, over 25% of PS5 hardware units sold in the US life-to-date are digital systems.

    The life-to-date US attach rate of the add-on Disc Drive to those digital systems is over 5%.

    Old data points keep getting thrown around, unfortunately.

    Is what it is. Both the pro disc and pro digital camps on this are using whatever numbers best fit the arguments, as one would expect.

    Can you take the financial reporting 85%ish digital split as the true split for games with both physical and digital editions? No.

    But are the splits better reflected from 5 year old numbers obtained from a leak? Also, no.

    Anyways, the numbers aren’t even the point at the moment, are they.