UK sales Split

[hiccupthehuman]

src said:

Xbox is in trouble if UK splits are anything to go by. UK is a region that is generally favourable to Xbox. EU is even more slanted to Sony and Asia is pretty much entirely Sony (in terms of PS:XB ratio).

Nier: 89% (UK)
Hitman: 75/20 (UK)
Outriders: 83/17 (UK)
ME:LE : 68/32(UK)
Biomutant: 71/29 (UK)
C2077 (2020): 62/38 (WW)

70/30 in the UK most likely means 75/25 WW. If the title is JP and has a notable audience in Asia then you are looking at 80-90% of sales on Playstation.

To put this another way. 70% of nearly all third party games sold on consoles happen on Playstation. 80% of all (EDIT) third party JP games sold on consoles, that are not on Nintendo, happen on Playstation.

Sony have not dominated the console space like this since the PS2 days. Not even PS4 had such massive marketshare in terms of games sold.

Sigh... ANOTHER "Xbox is in trouble because of the split"? And again using only physical sales. We've already established Xbox sales are higher digitally...

Xbox is not in trouble. Xbox is literally more profitable than ever. 3rd party sales are higher than ever. Profits are higher than ever. The trillion dollar parent company, Microsoft, is now fully backing and investing in Xbox.

Devs don't care all that much about the split (tho fanboys seem to care a lot about them).

It's all about profits. Just like how Horizon: Zero Dawn has a split ~90%/10% on PS/PC; but the PC release generated a 250% return on investment. So Sony is going to continue to release games on PC (as their leaked internal document has revealed).

It's the same thing on Xbox. Even if only 20% of sales are on Xbox, so what? The return of investment is massive for the developers. And they'll continue to support Xbox. 

Last edited by hiccupthehuman - on 13 June 2021