WabbleDude

@wabbledude.bsky.social

A Nintendo streamer who occasionally does deep dives on food. Avid Funky Kong enthusiast. https://www.twitch.tv/wabbledudetv https://www.youtube.com/@WabbleDude

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I see a huge drop in physical sales in 2019, when we all started to expect the next generation to be announced. Then, there’s a huge spike in digital in 2020, when the PS5 hit the market with a cheaper, all digital model. They gave us an incentive to abandon physical media and many took the bait

Daniel Ahmad@zhugeex.com · 6d ago

Adding this chart too. The average PlayStation active user purchased around 2 digital games and 0.56 physical games in FY2025. The peak for full game sales was 3.11 per average active user in FY20. Doesn't include F2P which has grown.

It still blows my mind that New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is one of the top 10 best selling games on Switch. It is easily the worst of the three 2D Marios released on the platform.

As the internet devolves into a worse and worse place, I think it becomes more and more clear that the Domino’s Pizza Tracker is one of the single best technologies to come out of the Information Age.

Me, drenched in sweat: DON’… Don’t worry, ah, shareholders! Don’t panic! We are currently, uh… entering pre-production for games we already made. Please keep giving us money. Expect the games to release eight years from now.

What’s frustrating is that Square Enix is probably one of the biggest third-party supporters of Nintendo consoles, but only individually. We’ve got ports of Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Octopath Traveller, Kingdom Hearts, etc. but barely any upgrade paths from Switch 1 to Switch 2. It’s so annoying.

As he sleepwalk into an all-digital future, I have to wonder what retail spaces will look like for gaming, if they continue to exist at all. What is Grandma going to buy her grandkids for Christmas now? She won’t find any games on shelves to slip in her cart. Will holiday sales suffer?

Sony: We removed 500 movies from our digital catalog, so even if you bought them, you can’t play them any more. Also Sony: We’re embracing an all-digital future and ending physical game sales. Also Sony: We’re shutting down the PS3 and PS Vita digital stores.

Nintendo are far from a perfect company but man I can't take the hate they get seriously when everyone else is killing what I love about games. The people that make them and the tangibility that makes them more than data on a drive. It's never been so dire and they feel like all the hope remaining