This is from the Famitsu thread on InstallBase:

By November of 2020, Ghost had sold 412,868 physical units in Japan: famitsu

As of May of last year, Sony reported 1m total copies in the region.

So it's about 50/50 for digital/physical for Ghost in Japan.  Digital is growing, but physical copies do matter and are still indicative of sales performance to some degree.

I'm literally speculating and you're trying to speak of it as if I'm stating facts ... Bruh, this ain't it.

Not only that but you're trying to cover your own tail by saying that you don't know either the info on digital ratios because we don't have the information officially. Meaning, your point is mute. 

You don't even understand my point.  I am saying that the Switch has sold more.  Fact.  I said that more than likely if both are being exported the Switch is being exported even more than the more expensive PS5.  The Switch is cheaper.  That is a Fact.  I'm saying thats all we know.  Fact.  Period.  I'm insisting that it is annoying to keep bring up this theory and only acting like it impacts the PS5.  If you are attributing some of Sony's sales to exports, you aught to be doing the same thing for Nintendo's sales.  Thats my point.  I am saying that the Chinese would likely want both consoles. And I'm saying that software sales don't give us any real indication as to whats happening on the gray market.   I'm saying your speculation is flawed. 

To some degree for sure but to what degree is really uncertain.  In order to figure it out you would have to at least know the digital/physical ratio for Switch games.  With that information, you could take into account the 6:1 Switch/PS5 current ratio in Japan and then you could figure out if it makes sense to see PS5 titles in the top 30 physical chart.  That's the type of analysis you would have to do to make a real analytical assessment.  If anyone has the Nintendo split information I can do some calculations and determine if PS5 software is underperforming on the physical charts given a 50/50 split.  We don't need to speculate, we can do our own calculations with enough info.

One of my sentences acknowledges this fact, my speculation stems from the extend of how much we're are speaking here. And all I do is basically take the dataset we get from Famitsu to come to the conclusion that exports of PS5 were and are still important. Could be the same for Switch but having a strong set of software sales leaves me to speculate otherwise. Simple as that.  You can bring up digital unknowns to support that my stance may be flawed but the whole angle with which you went to argue that what I said stands for pure facts was wrong and misrepresented my intent.

Also if you wanna argue, your angle to which a cheaper Switch would theorically be more desirable to export than the PS5 is also flawed simply for the fact that the Switch is an aging console against a PS5 that just received a new model. Basically, the new-ess of it makes it a more desirable product for exports. Therefore without a set of solid dataset on the topic, your speculation is just as flawed 

Nice to see a 100+ week from the Switch after not getting any during December. Though this'll likely be the last and if not for sure among the last. PS5 will probably drop a fair amount soon and for some reason the 3DS is still being tracked.

King Switch coming for PS2 sales thanks to Japanese support

There have already been plenty of draughts with a stable baseline though. To the contrary Q2 hardware baseline should benefit from the amount of content in Q1

Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth
Tekken 8
Persona 3 Reload
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Dragons Dogma 2
Rise of Ronin


This is the strongest software quarter for the japanese market playstation 5 has probably had since launch. 5 of those releases could be 100k+ openers which is a lot by third party standards, particularly on playstation

Is spiderman being bundled? What's the sudden surge in sales?