Physical game sales reached an all-time low throughout 2025 in the United States as consumers embrace game access through ...

In a digital world, buying physical game copies might seem backwards, but there are important reasons why this is still a valid choice.

The idea that physical media, especially within the realm of video games, is dying has been gestating for quite some time.

So, if 2026 is set to be a record high for U.S. video game consumer sales, yet 2025 was the lowest recorded point in physical video game media sales since 1995, what’s the dispa ...

New physical video game sales have been on the decline for nearly two decades and in the US reached just $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. This is an all-time low since tracking began in 1995, ...

Physical video games have been a staple in the industry for years. However, things are changing. In 2023, many of us started to realize that the format of enjoying our favorite music albums on CDs and ...

New data suggests that buying physical games fell 11% in the US, but it's not as dire as you might think. New data is ...

“There’s a collector edition market. There’s the aspect of gifting physical items and allowing access for people to be able to easily purchase a game in a store and gift them to their friends or ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Recently, GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart all offered some substantial clearance sales on physical video games. The start of October is an unseasonably early time for game clearances, and ...

So, in 2025 US new physical video game spending fell 11% compared to 2024. This is the lowest rate of decline since 2021 (-8% ...

GAME, one of the most popular gaming retailers in the United Kingdom, plans to cancel its trade-in program at physical locations. Sources tell Eurogamer's Tom Phillips that GAME will stop trade-ins of ...