The digital excuse for Japan, is just that - an excuse.
Returnal was the top selling game in April on the PS5 digitally - at retail the game sold 6.5K, even with the best case scenario of 50% of launch sales being digital we are talking about the top selling game on PS5's storefront selling 6.5K in April... in the UK Returnal had 60% digital share and that market has been far quicker to adopt this method of purchasing games since they don't have a huge second hand market.
Yeah. So... it isn’t big. A little more than half the sales were digital. About 60%. But low figures for the UK overall
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) May 11, 2021
It's very likely that Resident Evil: Village on the PS5 will struggle to surpass 50K sales this year physically, third parties that are focused on Japan and Asian markets will look at the situation and be making their plans based on the figures they have access too. In Taiwan & South Korea the situation is very similar - so we are talking about the rapid decline of Sony in the region.
Last year they had around 25% of the Software Market this year they will struggle to get to 5%.
Last edited by noshten - on 12 May 2021
