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Farsala on 20 February 2018
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Hiku said:
Farsala said:

I still will, MHW is an outlier and is probably the only full priced game in Japan to have sold 650k digital copies. As well as the only game to have a 33%+ digital ratio, as well as the only MH to have such an attach ratio, as well as etc. etc. etc.

If PS4 had the 3DS install base with same attach ratio MHW would have sold 8m... which is ludicrous just like this attach ratio. But very good nonetheless.

All I know is PS4> PS3 is pretty much confirmed in the end, and it might even surpass the Wii.

There is no logical correlation between total FW/FM sales, and digital attach ratio. None whatsoever.
Digital ratio is decided by factors like availability, convenience, price, type of game, etc.
There's no magical invisible force that spreads from person to person and gives someone the sense of wanting to buy a certain medium, based on if FW/FM numbers are high or low.

And even if PS4 had 3DS's install base, it wouldn't have necessarily sold that much more. That's not how it works either.

Is 30% common? No. But it has absolutely nothing to do with total number of FW/FM sales. Those were not the factors you should have been focusing on when you reached your conclusion. And MHW showed that very clearly.
If the only games to ever sell exactly at a 6,3 % digital ratio happened to be games with the word "Limit" in the title, I'm not going to draw the conclusion that it's based on the title just because those are the only games I've observed to do those numbers.

Like I told you before, you have to be able to apply logic to your reasoning. And when you attempted to do that before, you mentioned factors like availability of the physical version....

Yes I use all the factors when I make these predictions. Of course I am rarely right, but I like to think I get close. A big PS4 game above 20% attach and digital ratio is simply something that I haven't seen before. But now there is one data point that certainly will help with predictions going forward, it just simply won't be a huge factor.