Video Game Sales Thread

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Started by Xevross, Aug 14, 2014, 02:56 PM

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BananaKing

One interesting thing to note with the PS/xbox sales split we've been talking about is that we know PS5 owners are buying physical a lot more than others (including PS4 owners) and xbox are way more digital than PS in general.

First week physical splits just don't tell the full picture, for example RE8 was 49% PS5, 31% PS4, 20% Xbox week one physical but we later found out that for the whole month of May it was 43% PS5, 31% Xbox, 15% PS4 & 11% PC including digital.

So first week physical XB was 25% of PS sales, first month physical + digital XB was 53% of PS sales for RE8.
True. But our observation if PS/xbox split was to try and notice a pattern which could be connected to the theory that gamepass has affect game purchases on xbox

If splits start to grow more towards PSs favour in the physical route, it can still be contributed to gamepass, because there was always digital sales, that was a constant. And we are measuring physical sales of games that came out when there was a strong ratio of digital sales attached to those games.

Of course it could be as a result of a faster digital adoption rate for xbox, with that pace, for some reason increasing faster than PS, or it can be contributed to gamepass starting to affect sales of games. Or both.