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jlmurph2 on 25 January 2014
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ethomaz said:

Nsanity said:

It does look quite low compared to the 360 , also what were the digital sales of the PS4?

Nobody knows.... Sony shared the WW numbers for retail + digital: 9.7m... so 5.4m are the games sales for Europe + LA + Asia/ME plus the digital.

What we can guess with these numbers....

1. PS4 sold ~2.2m hardware units outside US.
2. PS4 had a 2.1 attach ratio with Retail in US.
3. Software rate in US is bigger than every other place in the world.

Now the maths using the 2.1 ratio for the places outside US...

2.1 ratio > ~2.2m hardware = ~4.6m software = 800k digital WW
2.0 ratio > ~2.2m hardware = ~4.4m software = 1m digital WW
1.9 ratio > ~2.2m hardware = ~4.2m software = 1.2m digital WW
1.8 ratio > ~2.2m hardware = ~4.0m software = 1.4m digital WW

Everything lies in the software attach rate for the countries outside US... and using the (3) point (US attach rate is bigger than any other country in the world) you can start looking to over 1 million digital sales WW.

1 million digital for 4.2million hardware > 400k digital for 1.8m hardware


That 9.7m includes digital? Since when? We have the same numbers here for January 11th. 9.3 from the 4th with 500k raise from the 28th. So that's 3 days from 2013 that have to be accounted for from that 500k. I'd say about 680k digital WW at the end of 2013.