Bofferbrauer2 said:
Probably not, but that wouldn't change anything anyway. Is it just me or are the PS4 software sales just awful when compared to the install base? 3DS and Vita at least have a reason, getting slowly phased out, but PS4 is still selling pretty well. Also, almost 1/4 of those 8.6M are MHW, don't even wanna know where the software sales would be without it... |
Par for the course.
3DS:
2011- 7,365,636
2012- 16,457,553
2013- 23.575.562
2014- 23.387.031
2015- 18.438.698
2016- 14.780.505
2017- 12.008.236
2018- 1.783.274
Total- 117,796,495 (4.8 physical games per system)
PS4:
2014- 2.441.876
2015- 5.114.598
2016- 8.672.086
2017- 10.021.801
2018- 8.645.408
Total- 34,895,769 (4.58 physical games per system)
Switch:
2017- 7.328.882
2018- 12.720.950
Total- 20,049,832 (2.92 physical games per system)
Here you can see 3DS and PS4 has a very close physical game attach ratio and while the 3DS was flat or started declining after its 3rd year, the PS4 was up and started declining after its 4th year. Obviously attach ratios improve over the years so expect the PS4 to surpass the 3DS in physical game attach ratio at some point while the Switch may do so as well. The Switch is doing a bit worse than expected, as it matched the 3DS in its first year but then fell quite a bit behind in its 2nd year.
