Q1 Software: PS4: 40.6M*; 43% digital (17.46M)... NSW: 17.96M**

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

DonFerrari said:

And Switch being less time and thus the new entrants being more representative to the overall number of owners will make the sales of SW skew to Switch on that quarter because usually someone buying the console will also buy more SW (about 4 if I'm not wrong).

So one way or another you'll be skewing the number in favor of the platform that have more time in market or less (if both are being healthy). See why the need to counter?

This is why I don't like comparing tie ratios until after both consoles have left the market.  Then you can measure the ratio and the average software bought per owner per month and other metrics.

But while both are still selling and with such a difference in release data and install base, it just makes for a horrible metric to compare.  However, if you can get like for like data for equal time points, then you can compare but that's very difficult to get...accurately.

SO let's agree that both systems are having very good sales of system and software and that some comparisons are hard to be accurate =]