It has emerged that the Nintendo Switch has proved to be the dominant format for physical video game retail sales in the largest game market in Europe, the United Kingdom. The Game Business reports that in Europe physical Nintendo Switch game sales remain extremely healthy. Sales of new Nintendo Switch games are still around 80% physical in Europe. Though the site admits that if Nintendo doesn’t have strong physical software sales in 2025 then it will have a massive impact on the boxed game market overall.
Nintendo Switch has been the dominant player this year at physical retail
The nay sayers and dooms day people will love to claim physical is going away. It never truly will. Newspapers, paper bills, mail, vinyls, etc are still in the market.
I’m glad that the Switch is still going strong in the physical market.
I was just hoping Physical ownership stayed the same and we not just getting the physical license, but I don’t think it’s leaving on the level people say it is because I still go to Gamestop and online at Limited Run Games
Both Sony and Microsoft are pushing their playerbases away from physical games. So it makes sense that Nintendo’s physical sales are higher.
And as of Switch 2, Nintendo will be doing the same with more expensive prices on physical games.
Yeah no kidding. And they are going to increase their products higher after the Switch 2.
Call me a weirdo, but i still buy my ps4, xbox one and switch games in physical, along with physical movies (i just got beetlejuice 2 on bluray) and books, physical ownership is very important to me, i can sell them, give them away, rent them, lend them or whatever, they are MINE, even if this products are more expensive then.
I live in a large and major United State City, there’s also not much crime here. Every GameStop in my entire city has shut down and Microsoft and Sony aren’t like Nintendo who keep their best selling games always in stock. You walk into Walmart or Target you still can buy physical copies of Year one Switch games, You go in looking for a game like Halo though?, none existent. Probably because every other Game Company eventually starts to lower the price of their games to the point where there’s no more sense in having them in store. Where Nintendo likes to give the illusion and consumer strategy that their games should never do that. I don’t want physical to end but its being pushed hard.