Agente42 said:
Farsala said:
According to Sony, Q1 2021 was 79% digital rate for full games on PS4/PS5, and now Q2 was 71% digital rate for full games. And perhaps due to the pandemic imposed lockdowns, the digital rate has substantially increased since the PS5 released. We can assume as PS5 SW takes over PS4 SW, a higher proportion will be digital. PS5 may have higher than 80% digital rates. Even so with 71%. That leaves 29%, or 6,566 PS5 owners would have to buy the same game. But that is not going to happen as the PS5's library does not have an extremely hard hitter to take the majority of sales and PS5 owners chose to buy a variety of other games. |
Japan? You know the Japanese market tends to physical released, right? Only exception was when the physical games sold out, likewise Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing, etc. The best digital sales on Japanese market physical/digital ratio are 70/30. The exceptions was the big games when the physical version was sold out. The mitical digital Japanese ratio, with this hypothesis, the software sales are abysmally yet. The Ps5 performance is worst than 360. |
So you will suggest that Japan has a low digital rate, as low as 30%, while the worldwide rate is 71-79%. That means in other countries like the US, the rate would up to 90% in order to average out.
Instead, I think all major markets have similar digital rates.
Kakadu18 said:
Farsala said:
According to Sony, Q1 2021 was 79% digital rate for full games on PS4/PS5, and now Q2 was 71% digital rate for full games. And perhaps due to the pandemic imposed lockdowns, the digital rate has substantially increased since the PS5 released. We can assume as PS5 SW takes over PS4 SW, a higher proportion will be digital. PS5 may have higher than 80% digital rates. Even so with 71%. That leaves 29%, or 6,566 PS5 owners would have to buy the same game. But that is not going to happen as the PS5's library does not have an extremely hard hitter to take the majority of sales and PS5 owners chose to buy a variety of other games. |
Bold: This is world wide. In Japan digital is lower. |
So you will suggest that Japan has a low digital rate, while the worldwide rate is 71-79%. That means in other countries like the US, the rate would up to 90% in order to average out.
Instead, I think all major markets have similar digital rates.
