Global Software 21st July 2018

[Mnementh]

Kerotan said:

Mnementh said:

Oh, if you talk about profit, yes. Digital makes a lot more profit, as it is much cheaper to distribute and costs usually the same. For profit sake a high digital ratio is a good thing. But no, I talked about the chart and the general software sales. In that regard the effect is smaller and does not totally change things up. For single games it looks different, but the overall picture of PS4 vs. Xbox vs. Switch does not change much.

If we cherry pick just the top sellers yes but if look at the software total then no it makes a different. Ps4 for example could go from 1m for the week to 1.5m stretching it's lead at the top. 

And the Switch number as well grows from nearly 1M to over 1M. But it is no fundamental change. Yes, PS4 does look a bit better digital involved. As I said before, it goes from 1 title in the TOP 10 to three titles. And overall software sales become a bit more. But the big picture is that Switch and PS4 overall software sales are more or less on the same level with a small advantage to PS4 (depending on current releases as illustrated by the release of Octopath and subsequent software sales lead of Switch) and in TOP 10 a majority of Switch titles with some PS4-titles as contenders. This big picture isn't really changing with inclusion or exclusion of digital. The exact numbers obviously do change, but in ways hard to foresee as digital ratio differs between titles.