UK sales Split

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Sogreblute said:

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Where's the 65/35 stat from?

That is true, 120:50 is 70:30. That's an immense monopoly to have on the sales of a medium. Pretty much makes it impossible for MS to get big third party exclusives and very easy for Sony to.

It's not impossible. Microsoft just chooses not to for the most part, because there is no need. I don't think a handful of games is going to make or break any of the platform holders. Sony doesn't have a monopoly on sales. 70:30 isn't even close to being a monopoly. If these big 3rd party games are still coming to Xbox then the publishers must be happy with the sales. If Sony wants to waste their money then let them, but it has been shown the highest spender doesn't always get the highest profit.

If you want to talk what is basically a monopoly, then look at Japan with Nintendo.

It is impossible. No major third party is going to trade 70% of their sales of their big IP's for money. That will damage the IP's popularity beyond what money can buy.

I'm not concerned with country markets. In that case Sony would have a monopoly in many countries. I'm talking worldwide.

A 70% hold on all software sales.....that's a massive monopoly. That's more than Amazon in eCommerce US, that's more than Windows on OS, that's more than Apple on app store purchases.

Adding PC would probably bring it down to 40-50% which is more acceptable. Still big, that's Amazon in US level big.