Ps4 shipment reached 110.4mill

[The_Liquid_Laser]

brute said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

 244.9m games sold during the past fiscal year.  That is the number I find most interesting.  I mean, on this site we focus more on hardware, but hardware is a simple number that is easier to track.  It's a good benchmark.  But software is really what is important.  Software is important to gamers, and software is where a company makes it's profits.

On Nintendo's recent financial report they sold 168.7m software units.  That tells me that PS4 is still the most popular system in the world right now.  Eventually people move on to another system, but most PS4 players have not moved on yet.  Given, PS4 has about twice the install base of Switch and it is not selling anywhere near twice the software.  Some have moved on to the Switch or at least gotten tired of their PS4 for a while.  But still, the bottom line is that PS4 is still the most popular platform in the world right now.  It's still selling the most games even if hardware sales have died down.

Curious. Do these numbers include digital only games? I was under the impression one or both of Nintendo and Sony dont include those in their numbers.

IIRC, PS4 numbers do not include digital only games.  On Nintendo's website under unit sales I found this footnote: "Software sales units for each platform are those of card or disk software (packaged and downloadable versions)."  
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/number.html

It doesn't look like either total includes downloadable only games.  It's an apples to apples comparison.