Famitsu sales: Week 31, 2021 - (26th July - 1st August )

[Agente42]

Farsala said:

Agente42 said:

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:

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.

You have two problems with this comparison. First, digital in Japan is very low, included sony consoles. Second, the Ps4/Ps5 have two consoles in different situations.  We don´t know how the percentage of the ratio digital/physical have ps5, year pass and consoles with more time have a percentage of digital bigger than physical, the recent switch paper demonstrate this.