The PlayStation Blackout Protest Failed to Impact Sony's Balance Sheet
A loose PlayStation blackout protesting Sony's plan to drop physical games seems to have had little impact on PlayStation usage stats or Sony's business.
In August, a group called Does It Play? asked gamers to turn off their consoles, log out of PlayStation Network, and forgo any digital purchases for one week. The hope was for this blackout to pressure Sony to reconsider its plan to stop making physical game discs in January 2028.
A couple of weeks later, Mat Piscatella, senior director and video game industry advisor at the market research firm Circana, saidthe protest triggered "no significant change at all in player count or engagement." Now, Sony’s Q3 financial results back up Piscatella's claim: PlayStation had 127 million monthly active users, up 2 million from the last quarter and 8 million from the same time last year. Digital full-game purchases rose from last year's 72% to...
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