No, you can buy the PC version of Fallout 4 at retail.

Interesting!
Do we know what the day one sales were? Can we deduce from that some sort of breakdown?

I don't see why not.  A retail sale is a retail sale.  They still have to pay for shipping and they still have to give the retailer a cut.  Doesn't matter if it's just a code written on a slip of paper inside a box.  

*sigh*

More skewing numbers (PC sales) to create the illusion that everyone is buying digital in mass in the hopes that people ditch physical so they can control us all and eliminate second hand sales.

Obviously more people buy digital on PC but it's not as if no one buys the physical box.  Some people just like having the case on their shelf.  Others will buy it as an impulse on the way home from work, or use gift cards, or buy it because of retailer points.  Retailers stock them so they must be selling somewhat.

Also, the comparison is still completely valid because of Skyrim and other PC games that just put a launcher on the disc.

I agree completely. This issue is one I really want to see develop on a grander scale, with games as the forefront. If I leave you my film collection upon death, why does that only include my PHYSICAL film collection? I was reading up on this and there may be legal precedent to change this soon enough but it's a conversation we as a community need to being to the forefront. Games are art now, legally speaking, but our licenses for them are less legally recognized when we don't physically own that license somehow. PC games have gone a step further, where even physically owning it doesn't matter because the disk is a one-use steam key. PC gamers, ironically since the PC crowd are the ones who argue that they have more freedom, have given up their freedom to own their games in order for ease of access. 

Yes we know, because of this Halo 5 sold like 100 million copies, at least thats what the rumors are.

OT: This number underlines what most everyone knew by now. Digital is growing fast. But F4 is not the best example for this. F4 was heavily PC oriented, preloads were available and even the PC retail edition was a Steam key. And even so, this is just day one. That means absolutly nothing, really without hard numbers to back the claims.

Seeing that the game sold ~ 9 million on PS4/Xone combined at retail, when the cumultive sales were at 12 million, it yet again points at the fact that even with digital growth, retail is here to stay for a while.

Great news. It's important that the big AAA titles grow in the digital area. I look forward to an all-digital generation :).

This information is going to get abused every NPD.

Information like this needs to get abused until such a time that it becomes more transparent.  We should be seeing full data on sales in both retail and digital forms for all varieties of media, including video games.