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Who said they aren't? People only said it wasn't the majority. There's no need to downplay bundles, most people who buys these consoles would buy these games anyway.
Number of console units sold
Is that £4.6billion on retailers selling digital software?
I don't understand the first header, just because it also mentions physical?
I don't understand the first header, just because it also mentions physical?
Not exactly great numbers for the new consoles... but that was mainly down to supply. Let's see what 2023 has in store for us
The images are the summary - the charts tell you everything.
It's not even that far away from God of War. Very nice, this forum likes to shit on and downplay Horizon a lot. Good to see it is (probably) doing well so that we will most likely get a third game (afaik it was planned as a trilogy anyway).
We have known this.
What people have been saying is that the bundles aren't the majority of these games sold. So when these games continue to chart month after month, it's not because consumers are forced to buy bundles in order to gain access to the PS5 platform.
Thanks. As expected... *looks over at physical game collection, soon to be used as tea coasters...*
It's still lazy posting to just stick images in without explination - especially for folks viewing on mobile with data limits. A couple of sentences summary would be appreciated in threads like such. :)
The UK market has always been biased towards convenience, and this is another example. Ain't nobody got time here to be buying physical media and putting discs in disc drives.
Those Bethesda games on the PC download to own charts are just incredible. Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim and Fallout 4 are so old and something like New Vegas hasn't gotten new versions, like with Skyrim or GTAV. It's still the original 2010 release that just keeps selling 13 years later. Truly generational games.
The fact that there are far more digital only games because of all the indie games etc is skewing this number. I'd like to see a physical/digital sales comparison for games that are available for both.
Speak for yourself. Putting a disc in takes 10 seconds max of my time, totally not an issue.
Yeah the sales number for Forbidden West are really good, i wonder how much it sold.
This makes me wonder when physical vanished for pc and what was the last game to be printed.
I don't recall seeing a pc game in store since the early 2000s.
Given the low/lower digital ratios on them (H2, GOWR, GT7), bundles likely are accounting for a pretty high proportion going by these figures.
GTAV sold ~816k units in the UK in 2022
GTAV came out in....checks notes.....2013.
All hail the king
GTAV came out in....checks notes.....2013.
All hail the king
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I'm not speaking for myself, I'm generalising about the UK market which neither you nor I alone represent. The figures speak for themselves.
I wonder if space is an issue too? Our houses and flats being pretty small means less space to store stuff, might account for more people going digital.
Am I missing something? Cos it's still 2/3 the size of the digital console figures overall and is 50/50 for the top 20
Again every single time this comes up it needs to be said it is cheaper to buy GTA5 again with a bundled shark card than it is to buy a shark card on its own and it's not like $5 difference it's like 60% off, for example the game + premium content + the 10M shark card is $35 USD on steam and the shark card alone is like $100 USD and I don't know why people haven't picked up on this being a thing for the past 7 to 8 years lol
GoW would have sold 569k copies, Horizon 451k, they would still have been at #6 and #8, just like now.
Also, it's not like everyone buying a bundle wasn't interested in the games
what do you think it will be by end of this Gen ? Its clearly on borrowed time now.
Is it? 5% overall compared to 16% for digital on console from the summary graph looks like so probably 3:1?
Edit: nvm, missed the bubbles at the top
Maybe but that's not what the stats say today. Calling it toast from 2022's sales is a complete exaggeration
View: https://twitter.com/chris_dring/status/1611353657626206209?s=61&t=sAMvcPgpJU0TzcR7f7Dezw
View: https://twitter.com/chris_dring/status/1611629886019354624?s=61&t=vn2Xrol63DyIItfUx7hcdA
You're going to have to tell the people with the actual numbers that. Apparently your tales from my ass data contradicts theirs.
Why does he get so huffy whenever someone brings this up, it's worth bringing up. The whole physical monthly news posts kinda feel irrelevant with how big digital is and is going to be anyway.
edit: and there it is
I reckon they don't share any data. Keep in mind this is not an overview of the total market, only an overview oft he available data (some publishers and/or platforms are not included).
I guess price on digital stores now match the physical retail prices here? I remember, at least last gen and earlier, that it was just SO much cheaper to get a physical copy than it was to buy digital. Digital prices were like £50 or £60 and you could get a physical game for £40. The price difference wasn't worth it at all for the convenience. I still don't have a PS5 or Series so not been keeping up with prices between physical and digital at release because I have no reason to, I just know prices for the games have gone up and I'm assuming they now match like it did in NA.
It's still kinda wild to me how digital games aren't cheaper than physical considering they don't have to pay for printing and distribution and all that.
It's still kinda wild to me how digital games aren't cheaper than physical considering they don't have to pay for printing and distribution and all that.
There what is? He gets tired of the fanboys arguing in his mentions about the bundles!1