Circana's latest retail tracking data lands like a brick through the window of the 'No Disc, No Buy' movement. Only seven PlayStation games have cleared 100,000 physical units sold in the US year-to-date in 2026, while just two titles moved more than 10,000 discs in the single week ending July 11. Mat Piscatella's numbers don't lie: disc buyers are a rounding error in the current market.

The handful of titles that cleared the threshold line up with the year's bigger releases—Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert, MLB The Show 26, 007 First Light, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, WWE 2K26, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Even these standouts are unlikely to have pushed much past low six figures in US physical sales given the broader 78/22 digital-to-physical split analysts have tracked and the reality that many new releases skip physical editions entirely. Meanwhile, total US physical PlayStation game sales across 2025 still clocked in around 70 million units, proving volume exists but per-title numbers for new games remain microscopic.

The backlash on YouTube comments and Change.org petitions may feel loud, yet the purchasing data tells a colder story: convenience and digital libraries have already won for the vast majority of buyers. Sony's pivot toward higher-margin digital isn't fighting market forces—it's riding them. The pro-disc crowd would need sustained mass boycotts, not hashtags, to move the needle.