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curl-6 on 29 April 2023
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Farsala said:
curl-6 said:

Looks like it varies a lot by quarter, with this Q4 being about the same as Q4 2019 before the PS5 even came out, yet the PS4 still had better physical sales than this, so I still don't see how digital alone can account for PS5's lack of presence in the physical charts.

I ould rite a full eplanation but my keyboard sucks, and it is too much of a hassle. I have to use ctrl+v to rite "s". In short:

1. 2017-2020 peak Ps4 softare.

2. 2021-2024 peak Ns softare

3. Digital at minimum is 62% in the last 9 quarters.

4. Q1 and Q4 (January-June) have the highest digital rate, but lo overall softare rates.

5. Ps4 games can be played on Ps5.

6. Ns has a loer digital rate, especially in Japan.

7. Ps5 had massive stock issues hich affects hen people buy their softare, thus peak ps5 softare is a long time off and much delayed compared to consoles in normal conditions.

All of these things factor in to hat you are seeing ith the current famitsu charts.
Pinkie_pie said:
curl-6 said:

Looks like it varies a lot by quarter, with this Q4 being about the same as Q4 2019 before the PS5 even came out, yet the PS4 still had better physical sales than this, so I still don't see how digital alone can account for PS5's lack of presence in the physical charts.

Maybe you're comparing 9 millions ps4 in 2019 to 3 millions ps5. Also ps plus extra and premium only just came out a year ago 

I'm not expecting PS5 sales now to equal peak PS4 sales, but current levels (in Japan) are still not great for a system where the hardware is selling the way it is. 

Do we have a graph on digital vs physical sales in Japan? I assume the previous chart is globally?

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