Famitsu sales: Week 37, 2021 - (6th Sept - 12th Sept)

[Agente42]

Doctor_MG said:

Agente42 said:

Increase it´s one thing, another is surpassed the sales of physical and digital of Berseria. It´s a pure wet dream. You don´t have this data, so it´s purely speculative. Japanese sales, in this generation, prove the main drivers is physical media and digital was the main drive when physical sold out. 

How is that a pure wet dream? You said that it sold 160k on PS4 and 74k on PS3 whereas this title sold 151k on PS5 and 50k on PS4. The difference is only 30k (just 16%). Now, of course the other two had digital sales to account for as well. 71% of Sony's reported game sales were through digital means for Q1 2021. In 2016 for the same quarter it was just 29%. That's a huge increase and enough to potentially make up the difference in physical and digital. 

Now obviously we don't have direct numbers for Japan, but you don't either, so acting as if it's an impossibility isn't understandable given this information. 

You can look for digital performance in the Japanese market and see this, don´t have any proof of digital outperformance over physical yet. So, it´s pure speculation without any indication. The indication you have and you may check it´s the digital outperformance only when physical run out. This theory only mentioned because Ps5 abysmal software sales, and yet have no indication of this.