Us physical game sales recently went up just a bit – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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US physical game sales recently went up — just a bit.

They were up 3 percent year-over-year from May 2025 to May 2026, according to data shared by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella. Even so, he says that the “overwhelming majority of volume is done digitally now.”

Rockstar’s choice to make GTA VI physical versions a code in the box might mean that even more games are digital-only.

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