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[twilo99]

Why are playstation fans buying this turd?

It's a complete mystery..

 

[Kerotan]

80/20 for ps Vs Xbox in the UK. Imagine WW. I'm glad it's doing worse but I'm also glad it's doing better on playstation. Hopefully legs are far worse than mw2.

 

[Woopah]

You said that they had SIGNIFICANTLY higher digital tie ratios than playstation. I don't consider 80% vs 70% to be significant.

In Europe in particular, PS' digital ratios are often below that. FFXVI had a 56% digital ratio at launch in the UK, and its European digital ratio was less than 50%

More recently, Spiderman 2's digital ratio in Spain during its first week was 33%.

 

[BoxFresh123]

 

[EDMIX]

Well guess its over, thats fucking crazy!

Its now only going to sell 23, 24 million units at MOST compared to 30 million, looks like this is the end for them. /s

 

[onQ123]

Because ~70% of the UK Is digital? Because ~80% of Xbox sales are digital? Because 99% of PC sales are digital?

Clearly when the digital data is known we will have a clear situation. In these times, data on boxes data is certainly useless.

Far from useless I don't think there has been a time when the boxed sales didn't give us a sample of how things where going .

It mostly stay the same . In the last 3 years I don't remember seeing a big shift to Xbox once the digital numbers comes in.

 

[Sanepar]

I don't understand why people enjoy these mw2 maps. They are horrendous.

 

[adamsapple]

I don't understand why people enjoy these mw2 maps. They are horrendous.

Probably the same reason people buy rehashes of sports games each year, when a simple roster update DLC will suffice.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

How do you possibly know that?

What was the expected revenue for this? by how much has it missed? I'm assuming you know the digital sales ratio as well with such a confident proclamation

Tales from his ass, of course

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

It was a "miss" in terms of meeting annual CoD revenue, I am not arguing what was in their forecast. Certainly I don't think two years ago when MS purchased them, that this result was in their forecast. Forecasts get revised far sooner to product launch.

Yup a major decline critically and in sales.

 

[T_T]

But despite that massive userbase, didn't sales of crossgen games fall off a cliff for PS4 after PS5 was released? I might be wrong, but a 39%/29% between PS5/PS4 seems much higher than other crossgen sales percentages between the two platforms at that time.

The 60fps might've been a bigger deal than you think, especially when Digital Foundry and others were saying the PS4 version was the way to go if you want that 60fps. It certainly influenced my decision anecdotally.

But anyway, I realize it's not the topic of the thread so I won't talk about it much more. I just found the data interesting.

Nah definitely not. The vast, vast majority of Elden Ring Playstation sales would be done with 0 knowledge of framerates and who DF is. I mean if DF had such a sway in people's buying decisions, their ER videos would be millions of views each. The most likely explanation is Elden Ring exploding in the public mind, people seeking to buy a PS5 to play it and not finding any MSRP-priced consoles around so they just buy it on the PS4 they already have. PS5 in early 2022 was massively supply constrained

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I'm not sure we can be sure with FF7R. It could we be "the game could use more time, but we need a boost before our end of financial year".

Hopefully you're right though.

That is an excellent point