SenjutsuSage
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No, Playstation gamers have unlimited money. It's why they don't want a game pass like service. They love to buy games.
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Elden Rings UK Sales Were 70~85% Digital. PS5 ~50% Digital - Xbox ~85% Digital - Breakdown By Platform Inside
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No, Playstation gamers have unlimited money. It's why they don't want a game pass like service. They love to buy games.
Those are estimated combined UK console sales. So
ps4+ps5 and xbox one+Series s/x respectively.
Stuart360
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Well when did we ever get any UK console numbers?, especially for Xbox.
Still its more of less where both sides should be given the numbers.
KingGhidorah
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true. out of all console franchises (franchise that originated from console) Soulsborne franchise is the one PC fanbase coveted the most. They begged for Demon's Souls, they begged Dark Souls for the longest time, finally got it a year later after console release. They are still begging for Bloodborne.....They want to claim this franchise as it's 'PC franchise'
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The global figure was a figure of speech as I don't know what the breakdown of total PS4 sales in the UK are. If you know, please correct me.
That's what I'm saying, you're drawing a direct line between console sales and game sales, for a franchise that is heavily associated with PS, it should have had a slant. But it doesn't. Folks on the Xbox want to buy/play this as much as folks on PS.
We didn't, this is just going on assumptions and guesstimates.
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I agree it's selling well (as it should because it is awesome). I would not compare PS5 only sales with all Xbox sales to support that argument though. That would be a bad comparison that misleadingly paints MS sales in a bad light.
Lognor
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I can't tell if this is sarcasm. I haven't seen this type of response from PC gamers. Who are you talking about specifically?
Why would PC gamers want to claim this as a PC franchise when it started on Playstation and PC was getting Dark Souls games after console release. No sane person was claiming this as a PC franchise.
ethomaz
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It is 36.6% more sales than PC and 41.3% more sales than Xbox...
And they keep doing it wrong lol
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We haven't even been given global numbers for anything xbox. They are all estimates.
MrFunSocks
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Where’d you get these console splits? One of your mates gave numbers earlier and it worked out to be a minimum of about 40% bigger install base on playstation, which corresponds nicely with the game selling ~40% more on PlayStation.
On another thing being thrown around in here - the revisionist history of the transition to digital sales needs to stop. The majority of all video games sales on consoles were digital long before game pass.
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Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Or they do not want a repeat of software sales on the App Store and the spiralling down of perceived value of items (welcome F2P heaven eh
or Netflixication of games… welcome episodic games future) and are willing to pay for shit instead.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Until the next notable games physical UK only sales come out.
SuperSaiyanWithDreads
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Series S
Maximus D. Meridius
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I buy digital as I game share with my brother.
The 6000 points quest was a great bonus for buying this, the fact it wasn't £60-£70 wuid also helped
DenchDeckard
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Yup, playstation has been feasting this last few weeks. Some big hitters.
What, so if we look at it as a percentage so 100% was hypertheyically 100 units 41 units went to playstation, 30 went to pc and 29 went to xbox. I don't know why you are making it more complicated than it is.
TGO
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Not too much I didn't want to get too into it because I'm playing HFW at the moment and I didn't want to be jumping between the two or putting one aside midway through to play the other.
But from what I played it just felt like what you expect from a souls game.
Graphically...I can see the improvements but I don't know.
I'm not too impressed by it, rather more disappointed.
The art direction does the heavy lifting here as always.
ethomaz
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Complicated?
30 to 41 is 36.6% more sales.
29 to 41 is 41.3% more sales.
or
30 to 41 is 11 more (unit) sales.
29 to 41 is 12 more (unit) sales.
That is the basic, simple, and right way to use the "more sales".
You used % so 11% and 12% are wrong.
12% more sales over 29% means PS5 sold 32.48%.
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SuperSaiyanWithDreads
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It should, there’s over 100 million ps4s and more ppl with ps5s, duh
Markio128
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Rhazer Fusion
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Very good for Elden Ring. Did I read correctly or did they say Elden Ring sold much better then Horizon:FW? What was Sony thinking releasing Horizon so close to Elden Ring? I guaranteed Elden Ring took some sales from Horizon especially since they are similar to each other. Why do companies keep doing this to their games?
That’s absolutely not true
That article is including PC and in game purchases.
That’s including PC and in game purchases. Look at that article.
For the First Time, Digital Game Sales Outnumber Physical Sales
Digital game sales are skyrocketing.
screenrant.com
MrFunSocks
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Can I see your sources disproving it then? There are multiple other research firms that posted the same sort of numbers.
Rhazer Fusion
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If I remember correctly, this was even the case when the PS3 and X360 were close in hardware numbers. This is definitely a good percentage for Elden Ring on XBOX especially for a Japanese game, but third party games in general normally always sold better on PlayStation by a significant amount. FF15, RE8, MGS5 and Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a great example.
Sent. Read that article. 2020 was the first year it crossed 50%.
No one ever said that retail was the be all information for sells it still give us a idea of how games are selling.
MrFunSocks
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Nice cherry-picking of games that were long time playstation exclusive franchises lol.
Third party game sales generally always sell proportionally to install base of the consoles. There will be exceptions obviously, like the cherry-picked ones you chose, but even those will eventually even out as the franchises release more on both consoles.
Slightly beat FW on PS consoles and then obviously much better overall. This is just UK numbers. Think it did much better in Japan, 275k vs 91k just on ps consoles.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
So it's either a difference of 12% if you count PS5 only sales, or 41% if you count PS5+PS4 sales. Not bad, not even a 1.5x difference, let alone the 2-3x difference some people were thinking of.
Too bad that last Uk physical sales topic got nuked, would have been interesting to pick out posts from it.
Ass of Can Whooping
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Lol @ the maths in this thread
I did it in my head & just come to over 40% more on Playstation ,I seen some one claim it as only 12% more lol
kingfey
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World wide would go for Sony, since they have 10m Playstation console on Japan, and MS has 300k Xbox on japan. And the game is a Japanese game.
Its useless comparison to have. Sony always wins Japanese games comfortably, because of that.
But I didn't draw a line. You did:
"The argument that the much lesser install base on the Xbox accounted for only 10% less sales is pleasantly surprising."
I just said it's not suprising based on install base and not far off it. It's not the 10% you should be using for that.
They are the exact estimates that one of my mates used. It's just a different way of looking at results and associated rounding.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
DaGwaphics
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You realize they have 100% more potential buyers right? You do the math. Plus the split between these consoles was 60:40, so only a 20% advantage.
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60 is 50% more than 40 not 20% what type of math are you doing?
Goalus
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I was banned during the last two weeks and sorely missed this weekly epicenter of cheerfulness.
DaGwaphics
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It's a 60:40 split (roughly). A 20% differential in console sales. LOL
We only have percentages to work with. But lets say that 100k copies were sold on console. 41.42% would be sold on Xbox with 58.58% sold on PS. Or 41.4k in this example vs. 58.6k on PS, a sales difference of 17.2k or roughly 20% of the total console sales. Not bad at all given PS consoles outnumber Xbox consoles more than 2 to 1 in this region. The attach rate on Xbox was much higher than PS here.
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Goalus
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The difference is 12% though.
Hitchyhero
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I've never been a digital only person, and I've mostly gamed on sony products prior to getting the series s/x. Since getting my Xbox consoles... I've only bought digital. Its just so much more convenient, especially with Gamepass.
Whilst I'm sure numbers will always be better on PlayStation, I have been saying for a while that digital numbers is much more important on xbox.
Whilst I'm sure numbers will always be better on PlayStation, I have been saying for a while that digital numbers is much more important on xbox.
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DenchDeckard
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fuck me, Feel like I’m Back in school having a maths lesson.
what is crazy is a lot of people thought horizon forbidden west would outsell Elden Ring but Elden ring just came out swinging and curbed stomped it in sales.
what is crazy is a lot of people thought horizon forbidden west would outsell Elden Ring but Elden ring just came out swinging and curbed stomped it in sales.
Y'all need to stop this lol
Use full context
say the game sold 41% more on PlayStation vs Xbox
or
the game sold 27% less on Xbox vs PlayStation
DaGwaphics
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Doesn't change anything no matter how you say it.
Xbox performing very well with this title.
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