Software :
RANKINGS
Physical and Full Game Digital for publishers in the Digital Leader Panel, ranked on dollar sales

1. Marvel's Spider-Man

Year To Date

Far Cry 5
God of War 2018
Marvel's Spider-Man
Monster Hunter: World
NBA 2K19
Madden NFL 19^
Grand Theft Auto V
Call of Duty: WWII^
Dragon Ball: Fighterz

-------------------------------------------------------- My Thoughts

In just 3 weeks of sales and Spiderman becomes the 3rd best selling game of the year.
It apparently beat out NBA 2K19 by a HUGE margin.

Also dispite DQ11 being on PC/PS4... and not a nintendo console (3ds or Switch) (for NPD), it MORE than doubled DQIX sales.
So thats good news, future DQ will probably keep coming to the west and release on playstation and PC.

Seems very impressive on Spider-Man part and a pretty big boost for PS4 HW.

Now now, we already know that there can be absolutely no discussion of Labo until after the Christmas holiday. Because all of a sudden for no reason whatsoever parents are going to be lined up in stores across the nation just hoping to get that cardboard as a gift for little Timmy. It's going to be pandemonium, mayhem, something we haven't seen since Tickle Me Elmo. A product that has barely registered in the great consumer consciousness for the 6 months it has been on the market is just going become the top toy to buy despite requiring to have a 300 dollar device to operate it.

I honestly wonder if the people spewing that nonsense actually spent 5 seconds to even think about just how bonkers that notion was.

I'm still doubtful of the effects of permanent price cuts to have a massive effect. After correcting for the effects of system-sellers and other short-term boosts that affected only a single month, it appears they've made modest impacts. The initial cut to $350 for the PS4 produced a roughly 13% YoY boost for the Jan.-May period of 2016, with the boost completely vanishing by July (which was down significantly from July 2015; its effect on June cannot be determined because of Batman: Arkham Knight's impact on sales in June 2015). 13% for a five-month span is not a huge boost. The Slim and corresponding permanent drop to $300 produced only a 10.25% YoY increase in weekly average sales for the Jan.-Aug. period of 2017 (June 2017 was excised from the data set because of the short-term boost of the $250 Limited Edition Gold PS4). Again, that's quite modest, especially compared to price cuts from previous generations, and, interestingly, most of that YoY growth was from July (+34.8% YoY) and August (+18.75% YoY) for reasons I cannot be sure of (perhaps a drop in 2016 sales ahead of the Slim's launch). The Jan.-May period of 2017 was up a meager 3% YoY.

Now, a cut to $199 for the PS4 Slim (and possibly XBO S), if it's even in the cards, would be a deeper price cut than any of the others, and thus potentially capable of more. However, as I mentioned, no price cut that deep has come this late in a generation before, and, when taking into account how late we are in this generation and other factors like market share and the historical effects of late-gen price cuts, I'm skeptical of the ability of such a cut to create significant sales growth. I'm even more skeptical that we'll even see it in the first place. Historical precedent doesn't bode well for any of it. I think there would be more to gain sales-wise from cuts to the Pro and X1X, assuming Sony & MS decide that it's in their best interests to do so at this juncture.

Now now, we already know that there can be absolutely no discussion of Labo until after the Christmas holiday. Because all of a sudden for no reason whatsoever parents are going to be lined up in stores across the nation just hoping to get that cardboard as a gift for little Timmy. It's going to be pandemonium, mayhem, something we haven't seen since Tickle Me Elmo. A product that has barely registered in the great consumer consciousness for the 6 months it has been on the market is just going become the top toy to buy despite requiring to have a 300 dollar device to operate it.

I honestly wonder if the people spewing that nonsense actually spent 5 seconds to even think about just how bonkers that notion was.

We dont know if its more than 1:1, because of the vastly different prices each game had, and that DQ XI has the LE as an advantage(I think they were betwenn 120 and 150 dollars?).So I think its premature at the very least to say that DQ XI performed better than DQ IX in terms of units sold.Having said that, DQ XI did bring in more money for Square, and thats also very important.

DQ never should have left Playstation, as much as Persona should have come to Nintendo a long time ago.These are kind of games that dosent make much sense to be tied to one console, especially since they are selling well enough that the budget to develop a second version(be it Playstation or Nintendo related) isnt even an issue to begin with.