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So you don't have the data like I said?The situation is clear to anyone, as you can easily extrapolate what is happening outside the Top 30 - Switch titles have better legs because there is an active user-base.
Digital is still 20-30% at best for the majority of titles which don't face shortages at launch or aren't part of Nintendo's voucher program.
Most recently we found out that Resident Evil: Village had around 20% digital in Japan at launch, compared to Monster Hunter Rise which faced shortages and had digital of around 50% at launch.
We also know for a fact that the best selling physical game on the PS5 is Village at 67.000, with this type of software sales PS5 is not a viable platform for third parties in Japan. While PS4 has declined greatly as witnessed by Village again having difficulty in selling it's initial shipment regardless of bomba bin sales with 50% discounts.
For third parties it's pretty clear what you need to do in order to be successful in Japan(and outside Japan), as seen by the record financial results posted by Capcom, Konami, Koei Tecmo, Marvelous, Nippon Ichi, you can see it with the figures we do know about from Famitsu's Top 30.
If you are still in denial you are simply not wanting to see the forest for the trees but a ecosystem that can't even support 10% market share in Japan is simply not viable for third parties focused on the market going forward. PS will continue to get AAA games but outside of Square Enix, Capcom & From Software - Japanese third parties don't develop a lot of AAA games. Bandai has one game that I would classify as AAA - Tekken; Sega has one which is Total War; Koei has one which is Nioh - nothing is really at Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter type budget.
Famitsu Top 50 Third Party 2021:
TOTAL: 6.995.225
- [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom) - 2.318.363
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) - 1.125.838
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft) - 463.855
- [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous) – 281.140
- [NSW] Monster Hunter Stories 2 (Capcom) - 227.554
- [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
- [NSW] Baseball Spirits 2021 (Konami) - 186.042
- [NSW] Crayon Shin-Chan (Neos) - 183.733
- [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
- [NSW] Bravely Default II (Square Enix) – 136.091
- [NSW] Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous) - 127.968
- [NSW] Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel (Konami) - 127.221
- [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2 (Imagineer) - 108.222
- [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 100.806
- [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 85.310
- [NSW] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 72.796
- [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
- [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 70.964
- [NSW] Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 68.180
- [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 67.000
- [NSW] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 65.620
- [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 62.119
- [NSW] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 61.350
- [NSW] Minecraft Dungeons (Microsoft) - 59.256
- [NSW] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) - 40.688
- [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Sega) - 36.105
- [NSW] Family Trainer (Bandai Namco) - 35.273
- [PS4] Scarlet Nexus(Bandai Namco) - 31.665
- [PS4] Biomutant (THQ Nordic) - 30.292
- [NSW] Densha de Go!! (Square Enix) - 29.624
- [NSW] Apex Legends: Champion Edition (Electronic Arts) - 29.057
- [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 27.539
- [NSW] Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny (Nippon Ichi) - 25.744
- [NSW] Jack Jeanne (Broccoli) - 25.518
- [PS4] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 24.968
- [PS4] Judgment [New Price Edition] (Sega) - 24.271
- [PS5] Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (Square Enix) - 23.491
- [NSW] Neo: The World Ends with You (Square Enix) - 22.028
- [NSW] The Quintessential Quintuplets Double Integral (Mages.) - 20.374
- [NSW] A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism (Artdink) - 20.043
- [PS4] Disgaea 6 (Nippon Ichi) - 18.289
- [NSW] The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Capcom) – 18.197
- [PS4] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 16.352
- [PS4] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 16.235
- [NSW] Angelique Luminarise (Koei Tecmo) - 14.506
- [PS4] Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection (Koei Tecmo) - 14.483
- [NSW] Winning Post 9 2021 (Koei Tecmo) - 14.368
- [PS4] NieR: Automata - GotY Edition (Square Enix) - 13.712
- [PS4] Guilty Gear: Strive (Arc System) - 13.574
- [PS4] Winning Post 9 2021 (Koei Tecmo) - 13.221
NSW TOTAL: 6.264.697 (89.6%)
PS4 TOTAL: 640.037 (9.1%)
PS5 TOTAL: 90.491 (1.3%)
Top 10 Third Party Publishers
- Capcom - 2.823.097 (40.4%)
- Konami - 1.466.640 (21%)
- Microsoft - 523.111 (7.5%)
- Square Enix - 500.369 (7.2%)
- Marvelous - 490.963 (7%)
- Bandai Namco - 303.846 (4.3%)
- Other - 268.201 (3.8%)
- Koei Tecmo - 252.774 (3.6%)
- Neos - 183.733 (2.6%)
- Imagineer - 108.222 (1.5%)
- Sega - 101.064 (1.4%)
Misleading.