In what way are they integrated differently in their respective platforms?
If you are saying MS are really marketing gamepass and that is lowering game sales in comparison then I agree.
The data threads are not wank because digital would be the same ratio but higher numbers. You are reading too much into it because these splits exist even with games not on gamepass like RE8 and they would be similar with digital.
A lot of people here have not decided what their actual point is. Are they denying that the split exists due to digital which has shown to be equal on the platforms, are they saying gamepass does or doesn't decrease game sales? You can't just call data wank though.
Let’s do some quick math:
- GTA V sold 20 million copies last year worldwide on all platforms, let’s assume it still sells at this pace;
- UK is between 8 and 10% of the global market depending on which data you take on Google;
- Assuming a very generous 70/30 for Console/PC ratio in GTA sales, the weekly sales of GTA V last week were:
20,000,000 * 0.7 * 0.1 * (1/52) = 26,923
Let’s take a ratio of 40/60 for physical/digital, although I think an overwhelming majority of sales are digital for GTA. That’s 10,769 physical copies sold.
Métro is in position 17 so let’s assume a 5% gap between each position, that puts Metro at a total of 7,521 physical copies sold. Out of which 5,791 and 1,730 were XSX.
At 35 gbp a copy and 70% dev cut that’s a revenue difference of less than 100,000 GBP. And that’s with taking the most generous numbers each time, I would bet the actual numbers are way below that.
It’s just absolute wank material for the same doomposters to doompost each week.