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Otter 6 days ago
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Kyuu said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

Nintendo sales for Capcom games outside Monster Hunter are... irrelevant, so to speak. Most of them were not even released on Nintendo before Switch 2

Xbox is absolutely irrelevant in Japan, and PS5 sales are nothing brag about either.

In west Xbox can at least bring some copies, while PS5 is a huge success. This certainly explain why the physical ratio is bigger in west

I've provided two examples showing a high digital rate on PS for games that weren't released on PC. The large disparity between PS5 hardware and retail software is in and of itself an indicator that digital is strong on Playstation, and it's just one of many indicators that people kept ignoring.

This data is Square Enix's, not Capcom's. Xbox's irrelevance in Japan means there is less digital skew compared to the west. No matter how small you think SE's or Capcom's games on Switch are, they're expected to do better proportionally in Japan than the west, which skews towards physical.

You're kind of assuming an absolute PC domination in Japan without sufficient evidence. Otter miscalculated btw, SE's digital rates in Japan are slightly weaker than Asia and NA+Europe, which makes sense, I was expecting a bigger gap.

So I realised I was looking at fiscal year Q1 2026, not this current one ending 2027. Japan had a lower physical ratio than west last FY, this year higher. Probably down to a higher focus on Switch 2 software pushing that packaged software up 

(report is in the tweet for anyone who wants to have a look)