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Physical Sales Graph For The Past 20 Years Highlights Just How Much Gaming Has Chang
It's a pretty depressing pattern.There's been a lot of pressure on Xbox to continue supporting physical games following PlayStation's decision to pull out of them from 2028 onwards, but we also know that physical sales have suffered on Xbox for a long time.Indeed, they've suffered across multiple platforms for a long time, as evidenced by a Circana graph that's been getting some attention on social media. The graph tracks physical sales in the United States alone, but nevertheless shows the intense drop-off of those sales since 2009, and particularly since the Xbox One and PS4 launches in 2013.Read the full article on purexbox.com
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/ph...as-changed
It's a pretty depressing pattern.There's been a lot of pressure on Xbox to continue supporting physical games following PlayStation's decision to pull out of them from 2028 onwards, but we also know that physical sales have suffered on Xbox for a long time.Indeed, they've suffered across multiple platforms for a long time, as evidenced by a Circana graph that's been getting some attention on social media. The graph tracks physical sales in the United States alone, but nevertheless shows the intense drop-off of those sales since 2009, and particularly since the Xbox One and PS4 launches in 2013.Read the full article on purexbox.com
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/ph...as-changed
