IcaroRibeiro said:
Does it include PC? PS5 sales in Japan are average at best which might skew their titles to sells more on PC i.e. higher digital ratio I remember Elden Ring moved 1 million+ in Japan when it was only 270k retail combining PS4 (180k) and PS5 (90k), assuming a portion of those PS4 players went to PC or to digital-only PS5 the digital adoption must have increased a lot this gen |
PC skews towards digital everywhere. But all evidence suggests that PS5 has a high digital to physical ratio in Japan for a console, likely comparable to the west. Earth Defense Force 6 was only available on PS4 and PS5 at launch, it sold 300k, less than a 100k of which were physical. Recent PS5 AA/AAA games probably have a digital range of 35-60% depending on the title.
Ys X Nordics had a digital ratio of 40% (across PS4, PS5, and Switch) by its 2nd or 3rd month. PS5 version sold the most copies (50%) and was the leader in digital ratio via extrapolation.
The digital skew outside Japan should in fact be a lot stronger, because PC, PS5 and certainly Xbox are proportionally bigger in the west, and Nintendo (which is a lot more physical biased) is proportionally bigger in Japan.
