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Random_Matt on 09 June 2021

GAME already spoke about this once before, it will happen.



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jason1637 on 09 June 2021

We got an update on the Resident Evil 8 split 

58% of the sales were on PlayStation, 31% on Xbox and 11% on PC.

If we look at consoles only that 65.2% on PlayStation and 34.8% on Xbox. 



kazuyamishima on 10 June 2021

Interesting thing of all, is that the PS5 version of RE8 alone, outsold the Series X/S and Xbone versions together.



JRPGfan on 10 June 2021
jason1637 said:

We got an update on the Resident Evil 8 split 

58% of the sales were on PlayStation, 31% on Xbox and 11% on PC.

If we look at consoles only that 65.2% on PlayStation and 34.8% on Xbox. 

Its like playstation users spend more money, buy more games than xbox users.

Tbh part of that is probably just subscription services (gamepass) and xbox guys being more "games as a services" types (play 1 game forever, spend on micro transactions instead). Part could also be user base, theres probably more PS5s out there, than XSX/XSS.

All I know though, is as a games dev, you sure as hell want your game to be on playstation.



Blood_Tears on 10 June 2021
hiccupthehuman said:

There we go. From the UK monthly: Total RE8 sales split = PS: 58%, XB: 31%, PC: 11%

So when you do include digital sales, the RE8 console split is 65%/35% PS/XB, which is much more in line with the ~60%/40% PS/XB split in the UK.

As I had always said, digital sales on Xbox are higher, and balance things out.
Not that the split matters all that much, it's all about profits anyway. PC is "only" an 11% split, so according to the logic of some people here, developers will soon abandon PC gaming because of its "minuscule market share". When in reality even Sony is now jumping into PC gaming for the first time ever ;p.

So what was the sales split for Outriders, since that was on Gamepass?



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hiccupthehuman on 10 June 2021
Blood_Tears said:
hiccupthehuman said:

There we go. From the UK monthly: Total RE8 sales split = PS: 58%, XB: 31%, PC: 11%

So when you do include digital sales, the RE8 console split is 65%/35% PS/XB, which is much more in line with the ~60%/40% PS/XB split in the UK.

As I had always said, digital sales on Xbox are higher, and balance things out.
Not that the split matters all that much, it's all about profits anyway. PC is "only" an 11% split, so according to the logic of some people here, developers will soon abandon PC gaming because of its "minuscule market share". When in reality even Sony is now jumping into PC gaming for the first time ever ;p.

So what was the sales split for Outriders, since that was on Gamepass?

We don't know, but Outriders was the best-selling digital game on Xbox during its launch week, and was in the top 10 best-selling games on Xbox during April.

The #1 game was MLB The Show 21, also a GP day one title.

Clearly, Game Pass is not harming game sales like some people want to believe.

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src on 13 June 2021

Xbox is in trouble if UK splits are anything to go by. UK is a region that is generally favourable to Xbox. EU is even more slanted to Sony and Asia is pretty much entirely Sony (in terms of PS:XB ratio).

Nier: 89% (UK)
Hitman: 75/20 (UK)
Outriders: 83/17 (UK)
ME:LE : 68/32(UK)
Biomutant: 71/29 (UK)
C2077 (2020): 62/38 (WW)

70/30 in the UK most likely means 75/25 WW. If the title is JP and has a notable audience in Asia then you are looking at 80-90% of sales on Playstation.

To put this another way. 70% of nearly all third party games sold on consoles happen on Playstation. 80% of all (EDIT) third party JP games sold on consoles, that are not on Nintendo, happen on Playstation.

Sony have not dominated the console space like this since the PS2 days. Not even PS4 had such massive marketshare in terms of games sold.

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kirby007 on 13 June 2021
src said:

Xbox is in trouble if UK splits are anything to go by. UK is a region that is generally favourable to Xbox. EU is even more slanted to Sony and Asia is pretty much entirely Sony (in terms of PS:XB ratio).

Nier: 89% (UK)
Hitman: 75/20 (UK)
Outriders: 83/17 (UK)
ME:LE : 68/32(UK)
Biomutant: 71/29 (UK)
C2077 (2020): 62/38 (WW)

70/30 in the UK most likely means 75/25 WW. If the title is JP and has a notable audience in Asia then you are looking at 80-90% of sales on Playstation.

To put this another way. 70% of nearly all third party games sold on consoles happen on Playstation. 80% of all JP games sold on consoles, that are not on Nintendo, happen on Playstation.

Sony have not dominated the console space like this since the PS2 days. Not even PS4 had such massive marketshare in terms of games sold.

so we dont count nintendo because the switch got dropped from a cliff?



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src on 13 June 2021
kirby007 said:
src said:

Xbox is in trouble if UK splits are anything to go by. UK is a region that is generally favourable to Xbox. EU is even more slanted to Sony and Asia is pretty much entirely Sony (in terms of PS:XB ratio).

Nier: 89% (UK)
Hitman: 75/20 (UK)
Outriders: 83/17 (UK)
ME:LE : 68/32(UK)
Biomutant: 71/29 (UK)
C2077 (2020): 62/38 (WW)

70/30 in the UK most likely means 75/25 WW. If the title is JP and has a notable audience in Asia then you are looking at 80-90% of sales on Playstation.

To put this another way. 70% of nearly all third party games sold on consoles happen on Playstation. 80% of all JP games sold on consoles, that are not on Nintendo, happen on Playstation.

Sony have not dominated the console space like this since the PS2 days. Not even PS4 had such massive marketshare in terms of games sold.

so we dont count nintendo because the switch got dropped from a cliff?

Third parties don't count Nintendo. 90% of third party games miss Switch.



kirby007 on 13 June 2021
src said:
kirby007 said:

so we dont count nintendo because the switch got dropped from a cliff?

Third parties don't count Nintendo. 90% of third party games miss Switch.

ah so 3rd parties dropped the switch



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