Famitsu Sales: Week 37, 2022 (Sep 05 - Sep 11)

[Kakadu18]

ShadowLink93 said:

Kakadu18 said:

Splatoon 3 isn't that supply constrained. It has a high digital share because it's an online multiplayer. These games always have a higher digital share. Otherwise it would be around 30% instead of 40%.

5 years ago games only very rarely had a digital share higher than 20%. Now most have.

To be fair to Nintendo they probably thought around 1.95 million physical copies in 3 days would be enough for the people that wanted physical. I wonder if there was unlimited supply for physical copies what would the split have been? maybe instead of a 1.95m to 1.5m split it would have been more like 2.5m to 0.95m.

The sell through isn't almost 100% though. It's readily available. Digital is not only that high if supply is tight. Like Agente42 also mentioned vouchers helped too.