Over the past decade, the game industry has changed dramatically, and it is quite incredible to put a lot of things that now seem to be taken for granted in the past. 15 years ago, the video game industry was not like this. One of the great changes was the development of digital games.
In recent years, the sales volume of physical software has been declining, while the sales volume of digital games has increased steadily. Players can now sit at home and easily browse online stores, buy games and download games instead of running to the game store. According to the data provided by PSN, the sales volume of digital version has occupied an absolute dominant position.
According to the latest data provided by Sony, the total sales volume of PSN has reached 1.83 trillion yen (about 95.9 billion yuan).
PSN has become Sony's largest D2c business and will continue to grow. According to Kenichiro Yoshida, PSN's sales in fiscal 2021 were nearly 800 billion yen (about 41.8 billion yuan) higher than that in fiscal 2017.
This year, Sony will also upgrade its PS plus business and attract more third-party manufacturers to join PSN to further consolidate the sales channel of digital games.