Famitsu 2013 Japanese software

[outlawauron]

tbone51 said:

outlawauron said:

tbone51 said:

Found it 800k digital sales ⇒ http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=195149

This is at Jan 30th so digital sales including DL cards should well be over a million!

Did you read your link? 300k of the 800ks are download carts/vouchers which are included in these numbers? That would put 500k+ digital which is still really good. 12-15% is more believable percentage.

I wouldn't expect there be good digital legs on any game also available via retail. Especially on systems with large userbases.

Yes 500k a year ago. At that time it was 2.7mil (including both DL cards+Digital) which would mean abut 2.2mil is sold excluding digital. over 1.7mil sold this year (just retail+DL cards) puts it at 4.4mil and not including a years worth of digital sales. 

Big question is how many more digital sales did AC get from Feb 1st 2013 - Today? It could be as low as 100k but then again it could of jumped up another 200-400k. We dont know unfortunately  

I would hedge my bets on the low end unless it's much cheaper digitally versus retail. The Japanese used game market is so big, I don't think anyone would want to pay more whenever you can find copies everywhere. This is a big reason why a lot of major games don't have fantastic legs or their get cut short, because the used game market is appealing to those wanting to sell and those wanting a cheaper game.