7 PlayStation Games Have Sold Over 100,000 Physical Units in 2026 in the US - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 July 2026 / 3,700 Views
Seven games on PlayStation consoles have sold over 100,000 physical units in 2026 year-to-date, according to Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana Mat Piscatella in a post on social media.
"Two PlayStation video games sold more than 10k physical units in the US during week ending July 11, 2026," said Piscatella. "Seven have sold more than 100k physical units year-to-date."
He added, "Commenting is cool, use your voice and all that. But commenting is cheap, I don't know."
What wasn't revealed is how much above 100,000 physical units sold any of these games were.
This was in response to a Kotaku article stating that the latest Marvel's Wolverine trailer has over 10,000 comments about PlayStation no longer selling new physical discs for PlayStation consoles starting in January 2028.
Piscatella did clarify that the data is "total PlayStation" and includes "all games, all publishers, and all PlayStation platforms."
The Game Business Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder Christopher Dring did add that in the UK a game would have only needed to sell 1,000 units to be in the ninth best-selling game on the physical charts last week.
"1,000 sales would have got you No.9 in the UK physical charts last week," said Dring.
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More Context for the Physical Split on PS5
- RE Requiem: 27.8%
- 007 First Light: 21%
- Crimson Desert: 19.9%
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Ghost of Yotei: 35.4%
Call me crazy, but that's still a significant portion of Physical Sales for your BIGGEST games this year...
It seems that way until you consider that BO1 and BO2 are said to have sold around 10 million digital in a week compared to some 2 physical games breaking 10k. But the takeaway is that digital has long since taken over as the dominant medium. That roughly 25% of physical sales overal all is probably why Sony went ahead and issued a cutoff considering that its obviously trending downward.
You are ignoring the point. Digital game s are selling. Physical is not. The real question should be why we're only 20k discs sold last week in the US when there are 30 million PS5s sold in the US? That is completely unsustainable for physical to last. Again, you got to put your money where your mouth is. It can't be 99% digital any week regardless.
its irrelevant to compare games that didnt have physical releases to games that did. its actually a ridiculous thing to do.
Did bo1 and 2 release physical? If not whats your point?
I posted my point about but it comes down to there being 30 million PS5s in the US and its not like they aren't buying games... but to sell a few dozen thousand with 30 million sold should be send off alarm bells. Wake up lol!
But Sony's biggest games are live service games (Fortnite etc.) , they make way more money on that, than on big SP releases.
The question is what happens if those physical versions no longer existed what would happen? Would Sony just lose those sales, or would people just buy the digital version.
Sony is betting on the latter. And the digital versions yield more margin so to the extent they lose 50k or so in overall sales it may still be a net gain.
When I clicked on this article I have expected to read what the 7 games are...
Ha, it would be helpful for sure. What's the thinking 2 are CoD and another GTA5?
Matt P. is committing a perfect example of the Texas sharpshooter fallacy here. Instead of showing all the data he is zeroing in on the data that tells the story he wants to tell. "Only 7 games sold over 100K in the U.S. over the last 6 months.” That’s fairly manipulative wording with veiled data. He’s picking a lower number and lumping the top 7 selling games into a category quantified by the 7th best selling game.
Playstation just had its worse May month report since the year 2000, as reported by Circana too.
We all know digital sales are higher, but Playstation is currently flopping itselt after the big price increases, and had no relevant big game release this week, no big deals, or anything. People are not buying much of anything Playstation.
Do you guys think digital games actually sell much for full price in the PS Store after 2 months or so after release? Digital sales are also massively conditioned to huge sales events.
If RE9 was sold out in Playstation and has already sold around 1M from the 3.5M+ physically per some reports (not very trustworth, but its what we have), and those have been mostly at full price and small discounts, I would think Capcom is pretty happy with all that extra money that would have existed if there was no physical release...
Sure, PlayStation is flopping terribly , "only" sold 618 , 000 consoles last month, that's a disgrace, and "only" selling 93 million consoles this generation, that's a disgrace too. Luckily, GTA 6 is coming out and poor SONY "might" sell a few more consoles. On the other hand, M$ sold 32 million Ex-box X/S, that's quite an achievement considering M$ consoles are dead after the launch of the Xbox 360. RIP Ex-Box!!!
Did you actually read what you are replying to?
I'm being sarcastic, of course. PlayStation is doing well.
Have more than 7 great Playstation games released this year? I haven't purchased anything that has come out this year. I will when they go on sale, as I work my way through my backlog.
This includes ALL games with a physical release across PlayStation consoles. True though there haven't been 7 great games released on PlayStation this year, so some of the 7 games were likely released in 2025 or earlier.
I was thinking the same and looked it up, and I think the answer is no. I mean, there might be some great releases included, but there definitely haven't been 7 high-profile releases this year so far.
If sony doesnt make enough then people cant buy them.
There doing this to make the numbers look bad
If people don't buy them Sony won't make them.
This article is what you call misleading cherry-picking!
that does not sound to good to me
Likely Saros and Yotei...
The likes of Mat Piscatella don't have a vested interest in pushing a narrative so I'm sure there is a good point in there but he would really need to provide the digital comparison for the point to hit home.
No need to slander him. But I totally agree one of the reasons why the resistence to digital has any legs at all is because firm like his have hidden actual sales numbers from consumers for so long that the general public was completely unaware of the magnitude of digital adoption rates. Had we had access to that information, consumers might have changed their habits. An informed consumer is a consumer that has more agency in leading the industry.
All he really has to add is 'Oh by the way in that same week 300k digital titles were sold' and that would be that.
