-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Elden Rings UK Sales Were 70~85% Digital. PS5 ~50% Digital - Xbox ~85% Digital - Breakdown By Platform Inside
- Thread starter adamsapple
- Start date
Swift_Star
Banned
And people were angry when it was said the majority of players would be on PS.
kingfey
Banned
You misunderstood the point. Gamepass existed before xss. And digital existed before gamepass.
People find it easy to buy things on digital, because its faster transaction, compared to wait time for your disc to arrive from amazon, or drive to a game store. That is what normalizied digital sales. Then you have f2p/dlc games, which doesn't need physical version.
kingfey
Banned
People are angry at physical sales. Everyone knows PS would outsell Xbox because of the split. Only insane people will think xbox would outsell PS.
Swift_Star
Banned
It was mostly PC players angry at this tbh.
MrFunSocks
Banned
Who said that? Why would anyone think that? I’ll wait for the receipts that you must have bookmarked there.
Last edited:
Stuart360
Member
Gamepass obviously has an effect, especially when there are 25mil subs for it. If you're a Gmaepass sub used to downloading digiital games, why would you then go buy a physical game when a new game releass that isnt on Gamepass?. I mean i'm sure there are SOME users that will do that, users that still prefer physical even though they have Gamepass, but its also obvious that many Gamepass users will just buy new games digitally.
If Spartacus takes off and gets millions of new subs, you will see the same thing happen with Playstation, its just common sense.
Also why are people acting like the digital PS5 doesnt exist?
Yes, I understand the benefits of digital but you're missing the point. we have people buying digital more on one platform vs others, unless you're saying consumers on particular platforms are more patient or can't drive I don't see the relevance. Somebody tried to associate the difference to gamepass' existence but IMO it can more easily be attributed to selling mainly inexpensive consoles without a disc drive.
Last edited:
Stuart360
Member
This is just UK remember, and i'd love to know how they seperated the UK only Steam users to get this data.
One thing is for certain though, Eldern Ring has sold millions on Steam already, some estimating it in the 5-10mil range just on Steam.
MrFunSocks
Banned
That’s all well and good, but for some reason people are forgetting the fact that the overwhelmingly large majority of all PS4 and PS5 games are also sold digitally. Sony themselves point this out in their quarterly/yearly reports.
Last edited:
Andodalf
Banned
They absolutely didn’t before Gamepass. Digital sales were topping out around a third or less of sales when it launch in mid 2017. After that we saw a rapid acceleration
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Christopher Dring
MrFunSocks
Banned
Absolutely incorrect.
TechRadar | The source for tech buying advice
The latest technology news and reviews, covering computing, home entertainment systems, gadgets and more
www.technobuffalo.com
Even as far back as 2016 digital sales made up almost 80% of video game sales.
Last edited:
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
NonPhixion
Member
3rd place is where Xbox is the most comfortable
Pedro Motta
Member
These sales need VRR, so that they can go from 40% to a stable 60%.
It may stay close, especially considering how early this generation is (only 9% was PS4 I think). But it also may widen after word of mouth sales start getting tallied. I don't want to derail this thread, but in the context of PS sales it's hard to completely ignore how much competition this game has on PS right now (some of which is multiplat of course).
yazenov
Member
This is in the UK where its Xbox second strongest market. If you take into account the overall sales of the game worldwide, I guess its around 80% PS , Xbox 20%. Japan sales of Elden Rings alone would skew the ratio vastly in favour of PS.
Oh and the userbase argument doesnt work in most cases as you can see or else PC would have the most sales given its user base.
Chukhopops
Member
I know this is some weak trolling attempt but From would basically cut their sales in more than half doing this.
No one is going to be leaving that much money on the table.
ethomaz
Banned
It was about PC not Xbox.
yazenov
Member
Too busy to dig up old posts.
ethomaz
Banned
I mean it is UK where Xbox is just one or two million behind PS.
Last edited:
It's not a 12% gap in sales but a 12% gap in market percentage. You can't use it to compare against install base.
If for example tomorrow it releases on Switch the market share percentage gap of xbox/PS would go down to 6% even though the gap in sales hasn't changed at all between xbox and PS. You would need the percentage of the percentage. The gap in sales percentages would be about PS: 60%, Xbox: 40% which isn't too far off install base in the UK.
Last edited:
ethomaz
Banned
Last edited:
Source? And you got the total numbers?
It would be interesting to see if we got any MAU numbers for the UK but that's asking alot.
Last edited:
Stuart360
Member
Exactly so all those 'UK Boxed Sales' threads were made simply to console war, and you all knew boxed sales didnt have much to do with console base.
Thanks for literally proving my point.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Wow, the UK Xbox folks are already embracing the all digital future.
XB digital sales are the single biggest chunk of the console sales.
I collect VHS tapes
Member
it's a shame that the game runs best on the platform it sold the least amount on
PC seems to have tons of issues with the newest patch
PS5 doesn't have VRR like the XSX
XSX is truly the best way to experience this game
game runs flawlessly on my LG C1 and XSX
PC seems to have tons of issues with the newest patch
PS5 doesn't have VRR like the XSX
XSX is truly the best way to experience this game
game runs flawlessly on my LG C1 and XSX
Last edited:
ethomaz
Banned
The latest leak was in Era in March 2021.
After that he asked ban and moved to something installbase and so I have no ideia how it is now.
[UK] More PS, Xbox and Nintendo Switch consoles were sold in 2020 compared to 2019
PS4 LTD - 7.58 mil Xbox One LTD - 5.6 mil ltd Switch - 4 mil ltd
www.resetera.com
Edit
Added the March 2021 data link to help.
I don't have account in the other forum and I'm no sure if they will allow I create one with my name lol
Last edited:
On that forum so will have a look.
yazenov
Member
It sold about 40% better on PS in UK, MS's second biggest market. Its not crazy at all.
NonPhixion
Member
Sales as a % to install base is the dumbest argument anyone can make. Would a developer rather sell to 20% of 60 million or 10% of 130 million?
I'm not surprised at all. These new machines load the game faster than it takes me to get off couch, walk to system, change disc, and walk back to couch.
Plus, I can't be the only one burned by Battlefield. Figured by the disc in case I want to trade in. Did not figure trade in price would be less than cost of gas to drive there though. Bad deal for me. Very bad deal.
The only reason it is interesting is this hypothesis that GP is conditioning users not to buy games. This looks like evidence against it.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
I am so confused why this guy's opinion matters.
"Wow this game everyone knows is selling well, IS SELLING WELL!"
Sorry to be snarky, it's more that it cracks me up. He was a GameStop manager, using that to have a bit of inside info, probably against the rules of his job.. but he lost that job many many years ago and has been an entry level retail employee for ages.
Last edited:
Yeah, that shit gets interesting especially with elden ring being largely sold on current gen console.
Attach rates per distribution model per gen would be interesting.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
UK may be MS's second biggest market but Playstation has a pretty dominant lead in hardware sales especially counting both generations this game is being sold on.
The argument that the much lesser install base on the Xbox accounted for only 10% less sales is pleasantly surprising. The game seems to have similar demand on both eco systems, and doesn't seem to have been a game heavily associated with PS.
Last edited:
ethomaz
Banned
Wut?
12% gap is absolute terms between 41% vs 29%... in percentage it is 41.3% gap.
The gap in sales between Xbox and PS in UK is about 2.5m max.... something like 8.5m vs 6m.
Last edited:
MrFunSocks
Banned
So without including the PS5 and Series S/X, which we know Sony has sold more of their console than Microsoft has theirs, the PS4 has ~35% higher install base. At the very minimum we’d be looking at a 40% higher install base for PlayStation than Xbox overall, agreed?
Wouldn’t it be fair to assume then that a game would sell at a minimum 40% more copies on PlayStation than on Xbox, purely because the install base is a minimum of 40% higher?
Last edited:
Fake
Member
He was an insider before. He still have his source btw.
Last edited:
Dr Bass
Member
60% of their UK sales were NOT PS. This would be a stupid move and, assuming you’re talking about exclusivity, would remove a beloved game series from a huge player base. Which is a ridiculous idea.
MasterCornholio
Member
Weird I thought the argument was that people wouldn't but the game if it was available on Gamepass. Elden Ring isn't on the service so the only way to play it is to buy it.
ethomaz
Banned
29% to 41% is 41.3% higher.
Last edited: