According to retail data, 35% of Marvel’s Wolverine sales were physical discs. This comes from Ampere Analysis (via The Game Business), which tracks sales data across major markets globally.
The data suggests Wolverine shifted 2.16 million units in September (it went on sale September 15), and a significant portion of those sales were on-disc. In Europe, 51% of Wolverine sales came from the boxed version. Zooming in, more than two thirds were physical sales in France, but two thirds were digital in the UK.
They want to annihilate the second hand market, so every copy sold is through them. Trading in your old games you don’t play to buy the next one is a staple of console life for many, but Sony doesn’t get a cut of the second hand games sold.
CeX is the place to go to get games near me, seeing as Game got swallowed by Sports Direct and hollowed out leaving Smyths, Argos and supermarkets the place to buy new games. Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft would love CeX to implode but it won’t happen whilst there are a steady stream of console gamers trading in the latest games to pick up an older one they never played or a random movie.