that's true.  Don't see dark souls 3 selling at least half of what DS1 did on xb360.  In the software point of view, xb1 is nowhere near as strong as xb360 in selling games.  yes, userbase is one of the problem but bloodborne manage to sell 2m when ps4 had similar userbase as xb1 is now and yet, DS3 will be lucky to sell 500k on xb1.  The fanbase definitely isn't there.

Most small devs went digital only since it saves them money, NPD needs to start tracking digital or they will be less important in the near future.

Retail market is now AAA only pretty much while digital is now very indie centric with most games coming from PSN STEAM AND XBL.

Did as expect. Im just happy the xb1 version did over 100k. We need more games like these. The ps4 version did really well.

OMG I'm so glad that Ratchet & Clank sold so well

ZhugeEX said: Thanks to Aqua for providing some valuable insight on the Games Industry in the US this month. Some really great data and talking points here, especially how the software market is now dominated by the same top 10 publishers with 90% of all dollar sales. Thought these 3 images may help show what's happening in the industry as well- With less dollars available in the packaged software market, for those outside the top 10, the number of Publishers bringing games to retail has dropped as well. Retail is now very narrow with only core AAA games in certain genres selling exceptionally well. Number of unique games published at Retail in the US between 2009 to 2015. Went from ~800 to less than 200. As the number of unique games published at retail in the U.S. decreases, so does the total dollar spend.

Didn't you tweet a few days ago that digital makes up 30% of EAs revenue? I could see why retail sales are going down.

Bravely second tho :(

It sold less than its predecessor. 

EA and Ubisoft. And probably every other publisher; they should at least make ~20% of their revenue digitally.

Both

jason1637 said: ZhugeEX said: Thanks to Aqua for providing some valuable insight on the Games Industry in the US this month. Some really great data and talking points here, especially how the software market is now dominated by the same top 10 publishers with 90% of all dollar sales. Thought these 3 images may help show what's happening in the industry as well- With less dollars available in the packaged software market, for those outside the top 10, the number of Publishers bringing games to retail has dropped as well. Retail is now very narrow with only core AAA games in certain genres selling exceptionally well. Number of unique games published at Retail in the US between 2009 to 2015. Went from ~800 to less than 200. As the number of unique games published at retail in the U.S. decreases, so does the total dollar spend. Didn't you tweet a few days ago that digital makes up 30% of EAs revenue? I could see why retail sales are going down.

Yup, but even adding digital sales shows the decline in spend. (Which is being made up for through extra content sales)

Besides, the above is to demonstrate the state of retail with less games and publishers.  At retail the only games that stand out are big AAA titles with not much room for anyone else.

I am not sure how you can disagree with him? on the early days on vgchartz people posted seals clubbed to death if someone made a comment based on the amazon sales.   This month proves why.  I am totally fine that people in the april amazon thread post stuff as 'the gap in sales between PS4 and Xbox will be huge' 'and PS4 is killing it' but it gets annoying when people use amazon for serious sales discussions outside the amazon thread.