March 2017 NPD Thread! Software charts up!

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SpokenTruth said:

Slarvax said:

Ugh, I can't find the quote/source, but I believe EA and Ubisoft said earlier this year that digital ratios for games is 30% (or 40%, something high), and it was like 20% last year. I'll look for it more, but the point is digital downloads are increasing very,very fast.

Nintendo is indeed on the low side. BotW did 3% digitally on Switch, and their games tend to do like 10% digitally (I believe the big exception was Animal Crossing: New Leaf, but only in Japan). This can be attributed to their stubbornness on not using HDDs and shipping systems with a mere 32 GB storage in 2017...

Do you mind addressing where the 3% Switch digital sales figures comes from?

Nintendo said BotW sold 925k (retail + digital) on Switch, NPD said 900k (retail). 925k - 900k = 25k digital (from Nintendo). Math here, math there 25k ÷ 925k = 0.027 or 2.7% rounded to 3%.

Here's EA talking about digital downloads, if anyone cares (they say digital downloads were 32% last year) http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/32-of-ea-unit-sales-in-2016-were-digital/0178293