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RolStoppable said:
Mar1217 said:

By curiosity, where did you get the numbers split? Was it in the financial report ?

They are numbers you can derive with information from the financial report. For example, page 18 of this document:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2022/220803_2e.pdf

Since Nintendo Switch Sports launched in this specific quarter, it's the easiest calculation. 900k copies shipped (meaning physical copies sold to retailers + digital copies sold through to consumers) by June 30th. When you then look at the Famitsu numbers from the week ending June 26, you see 512k copies sold through to consumers; Famitsu's accuracy for physical games is high enough to put their numbers in the correct ballpark at pretty much all times.

Now you have to add another four days of sales for NSS to arrive at June 30th. It sold 20k units in the week ending July 3rd, so for the sake of easiness, we'll round up the previous 512k LTD figure to 525k with the addition of four days. Then we factor in that physical copies have an amount in transit or on store shelves, meaning copies that have yet to be sold through. For the sake of convenience, we assume that each Japanese retailer on average stocks two weeks worth of supply, so that's in the range of 40-50k based on NSS's sales rate at the time. We'll add 45k to 525k and so we get 570k in total.

This gives us a physical to digital ratio of 63/37 and this constitutes a conservative estimate for the physical side, so 37% is the best case scenario for digital. This is several percent points lower than what Shatts said.

The digital ratio for Kirby and the Forgotten Land is also lower than 40%, so about 35% at best.

As for the point of origin of this sidetracking... even if PS5 games averaged a digital ratio of 60-70%, its total software sales would still be bad relative to its hardware sales.

Ye my apologies like I said above I thought '22 was 22nd, so I checked the Famitsu sale near 22nd but it should've been the end of June.