Japan sales (Week 30) Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - July 23-29, 2018

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ryuzaki57 said:

RolStoppable said:

It's not Switch that is the culprit, but declining PlayStation sales and third parties who have yet to follow the market. If more software is supposed to be sold, then games need to be made for Japan's hottest hardware. I am pretty sure you know the release lists and the PS4 is getting notably more retail games than Switch.

This is not correct, because most multiplat sell better on PS4. So Switch being "hottest" is no help for 3rd parties.

EricFabian said: This graph only shows that people are more into digital than retail. Nintendo is number 01 now, just accept and move on

Maybe MHW digital sales would make the curve match 2016 at least. Still, famitsu's monthly chart shows that digital purchase rate has stayed between 10-20% for a few years now. Digital is hardly the reason, the point is that PS4 alone can't do as well as PS4+peak Vita, as well as Switch is far from 3DS software sales.

Nintendo has always been n°1 in sales, what's new about that?

@Bold: Some do, others don't. Right now the facts that the Switch is very hot and portable while the PS4 having a bigger install base and often better graphics are canceling each other out, but I'm not so sure about that further down the line. The install base advantage is shrinking and only few Japanese multiplats have really visible differences in between Switch and PS4, which means it's swinging more in direction ofthe Switch in the future.

@Underlined: You talk as if it's the only game you could buy digitally. The other games maybe don't sell as much, but guess what: There's so many of them it more than makes up for the individual digital sales of the games. Pretty sure digital videogame sales are more than the MHW total sales in Japan.

@Italic: Since when???