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irstupid on 16 August 2017
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NoCtiS_NoX said:
h2ohno said:

It isn't 'as of this moment' since the statement was made August 4, 12 days ago.  Even then the PS4 digial sales would have to be massive and the 3DS digital sales practically nonexistant for that to work out.

We still don't have the complete data so I guess your point is moot. Again as of this moment PS4 is still stronger.
We may have the sales for retail but the digital is still unknown. Could be higher could be lower.

Well, using numbers, the 3DS is at 1.56 million and the PS4 is at 1.24 without digital.

That means the PS4 needs 320,000 digital sales to 3DS 0 digital sales to just catch up.

Anyone know what typical digital/physical ratio is? Or not even tpyical, how about very good even. If PS4 is at 1.24, to just catch the 3DS at 1.56 it needs to have a 80:20 ratio, meaning 80% physical and 20% digital. Imo that seems high, but I don't pay attention to dig/phys ratio so maybe its par for the course.

But again, that is ONLY to catch teh 3DS if we consider the 3DS has ZERO digital sales.  If say the 3DS only has a 90:10 ratio, that would mean the PS4 would need nearly a 70:30 ratio to match the sales.

The point of all this: It's highly unlikely the PS4 has sold more than the 3DS version with digital included. Thus the "STRONGER SALES" is PR talk/twist to mean something other than actual sales #'s 1:1