Dragon Quest XI sales stronger on PS4, on track to meet lower end of sales target

[palou]

Hiku said:

palou said:
That's likely in value, or comparatively to expectations. But as he said, the 3DS install base will likely allow the version to continue selling in the long run.

Valdath said:
How do we know if this is value or retail + digital?

I don't think they would be refering to value without specifying that that was the case. Every other time they used the term "strong sales" in the same Q1 financial briefing, they were refering to quantities of sales (there was no second version to compare to).

And from what I understand they count shipped units as sales. And that includes digital sales, yes.

When we heard that DQ11 had shipped 3 million units (including digital) a few days after we saw that the game sold 2,09 m physical units, it was a good indication that digital sales may have been pretty high. And the PS4 version is likely to have stronger digital sales than the 3DS. So it wouldn't be hard to imagine this bridging the gap between the PS4 and 3DS version.

A 350k difference in digital sales is a bit much, don't you think? It isn't like there are any stock issues for the game, or that it's a smaller title where people don't mind not having a physical copy.