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UK: 79% Of Street Fighter 6 physical sales sales were on PS5
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Are you tired to troll now? Like what's happening bro?
ChorizoPicozo
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the only worthwhile takeaway is that an amazing game (≥ 90 MC) is rewarded with good sales.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Well that's not the only reason. Microsoft completely gave up on the fighting game audience after 2016 or so. And going by sales of KOF XV and Samurai Showdown on Xbox, it still hasn't returned. Heck that's why they had to get GG Strive into Game Pass, they knew sales alone would not have made a port to Xbox happen.
But that is really Microsoft's own fault. They had a great fighter at launch with Killer Instinct, then just let that taper off and did not bother much afterwards. With Sony co-owning EVO, I don't expect the customer base for fighters to ever really return to Xbox.
In retrospect it's stunning to see them give up all the growth they had with that genre on the 360.
He has a point though. If you wanted a next-gen version of the Elden Ring experience at that time, your best options were PC and a Series S or X. PS5s were simply extremely hard to find at that point.
A case could be made if PS5 were as readily available then as it is now, it would have probably eaten a tad out of PC's share and a lot out of Xbox's share of Elden Ring sales.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Cant we all just be happy its on every platform so you can pick it up where you want?
5 was only on playstation and it fucking sucked!
5 was only on playstation and it fucking sucked!
feynoob
Member
What troll?
You mentioned PS5 sales. And I told you that the PS4 sold more than Xbox one. The people who bought these PS5 were previous PS4 users, aside of new audience.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
It started to turn things around by Season 3. By Season 5 it was a legit great game.
If anything SFV should not have released until 2018, but Capcom needed a new SF sooner rather than later, and SFIV was getting long in the tooth by 2015. They couldn't skip two years with no new SF, I suppose.
Sony have said 30% of PS5 owners are new to the ecosystem, meaning they did not have a PS4 last gen.
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squarealex
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2 possibility.
- 2/3 of the Xbox Series sales are Series S (and it's very sad)
- Or Microsoft force Xbox player buying digital ver. with very low disc stock
There no reason Xbox version can't reash at least 20-25%.
- 2/3 of the Xbox Series sales are Series S (and it's very sad)
- Or Microsoft force Xbox player buying digital ver. with very low disc stock
There no reason Xbox version can't reash at least 20-25%.
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
just a single entry?.....Street fighter skipped Xbox for entire generation by not releasing Street Fighter V on Xbox.Good to see them finally opening up.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
just a single entry?.....Street fighter skipped Xbox for entire generation by not releasing Street Fighter V on Xbox.Good to see them finally opening up.
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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But that's still a single Street Fighter entry.
SFIV was on PS3, 360, PC, even 3DS. SFIII was on arcade, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox. SFII was on arcade, SNES, Genesis, 3DO, PC-Engine, PC, x68000.
SF1 is probably the only other entry that wasn't multiplat but that game was trash. I don't think it even got a console port outside of the PC-Engine.
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feynoob
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They lost a lot of audience during Xbox one, due to these moves. They fambled their jrpg games on Xbox.
It would have helped Xbox a lot, had they continue investing on those games.
feynoob
Member
Isn't that global audience?
Pelta88
Member
In 2014 it was 40% of PS4 instal that didn't own a PS3 in the previous gen.
Sony: Nearly half of all PS4 owners did not own a PS3
Sony claims that nearly a third of people who own a PlayStation 4 did not own a PS3, but rather, came from owning an Xbox 360 or a Nintendo Wii.
I think
Thick Thighs Save Lives
is right on this one
feynoob
on PS5 it's around 30% that didn't own a PS4.
Sony Says a Third of PS5 Users Never Owned a PS4
In its earnings call for Q3 for the 2022 financial year, Sony claims that nearly a third of its PS5 owners to date didn't come from the PS4.
gamerant.com
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feynoob
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Xsx+xss will have higher digital sales.
Xbox one state left a bad taste for some players. And 2022 broke down a lot of Xbox users.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
To those who are downplaying that this physical / boxed sales only, here is the Resident Evil 4 Remake data from just a couple of months ago:
Physical Sales:
P.S. At this point, the console sales split in the market was 56% (PS5) and 44% (Xbox Series X|S). Yet the software sales difference is so huge.
Physical Sales:
- PlayStation = 86%
- Xbox = 14%
- PlayStation = 77%
- Xbox = 23%
P.S. At this point, the console sales split in the market was 56% (PS5) and 44% (Xbox Series X|S). Yet the software sales difference is so huge.
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Rhazer Fusion
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Yet I see people constantly complain why Japanese games and certain games don’t come to the XBOX. Most Xbox gamers just do not buy and support games no matter how high profile they are. This is never ending and has been going on for a long time well before Gamepass even materialized.
squarealex
Member
PlayStation also have more digital sales each years, also, PS5 Digital exist
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
To those who are downplaying that this physical / boxed sales only, here is the Resident Evil 4 Remake data from just a couple of months ago:
Physical Sales:
Physical + Digital Sales:
- PlayStation = 86%
- Xbox = 14%
RE4 Remake did not release on Xbox One, but it did release on PS4, but it only sold 9% on PS4. More importantly, the sales ratio did not change at all when digital numbers were added, although that's what everybody keeps implying.
- PlayStation = 85%
- Xbox = 15%
Horseganador
Member
Practically a 9:1 in favor of PS5 in physical sales is outrageous (with digital it wouldn't change much and it's just damage control), this is what happens when you get your audience used to a sub service for a few euros like the one GP, people don't want to buy games and the only thing you read on twitter is "I wait for them to put it in the GP".
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
To those who are downplaying that this physical / boxed sales only, here is the Resident Evil 4 Remake data from just a couple of months ago:
Physical Sales:
Physical + Digital Sales:
- PlayStation = 86%
- Xbox = 14%
RE4 Remake did not release on Xbox One, but it did release on PS4, but it only sold 9% on PS4. More importantly, the sales ratio did not change at all when digital numbers were added, although that's what everybody keeps implying.
- PlayStation = 85%
- Xbox = 15%
Exactly! Especially since Xbox Series consoles make up 40% of the UK market.
DenchDeckard
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I'm just glad Street Fighter is every where like it should be.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
bender
What time is it?
It's not on Switch.
Gambit2483
Member
MS has effectively trained their user base to NOT purchase games but instead wait till Gamepass....and people wonder why so many publishers are skipping out on Xbox versions.
Capcom is going to make their money back (and thensome) on this game through PS5 sales, not Xbox.
Capcom is going to make their money back (and thensome) on this game through PS5 sales, not Xbox.
Luminoth-4545
Member
Game Pass is conditioning Xbox gamers to not buy games it seems.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Didn't Sony buy up EVO and other pro fighter orgs? Plus DualShick/Sense is go-to gamepads for fightings games = 70-80% of the fighting game audience is on PS4/PS5.
jm89
Member
Sure i think for certain games it will be more favourable to xbox. I would think diablo 4 could have much better overall market share compared to what they got for re4. But i don't buy that's gonna be for majority of games.
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Rhazer Fusion
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Dp
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Kacho
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They lost most of the people who buy those games to PC and PlayStation during the Xbox One era. Things are better now software wise, but the buyers haven’t returned.
cireza
Member
Is Resident Evil 4 available in Game Pass ? I suppose not.
I don't really get why a game not available in Game Pass would have lower sales ?
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TheDreadLord
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How are you concluding that? As far as I know, SF6 isn’t on GP
XBOX has had a big push towards digital only with play anywhere and other initiatives such as retro. I’d say that people locked to their ecosystem are more used to digital only.
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Because gamers, like all consumers, can be conditioned and can develop consumption habits across the board.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
People wait. They say it all the time on here and across the web.
The conditioning is real.
Do tell, then why are the games not selling closer to the platform splits? Why is that sales split gap widening every month, despite the console install base split being far closer?
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93xfan
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I didn’t know that. Maybe someone spends a little too much time in sales threads.
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Unfortunately time and again we've seen that if results don't come quick enough for Microsoft, they will simply jettison an initiative. I'm almost certain the only reason they don't have a "Google graveyard" type of meme is because MS's failed initiatives are spread out among mostly prior software and services, less so hardware.
Although arguably the only hardware line they have which could be said to have consistently performed well relative competitors in its market are their Surface devices.
To those who are downplaying that this physical / boxed sales only, here is the Resident Evil 4 Remake data from just a couple of months ago:
Physical Sales:
Physical + Digital Sales:
- PlayStation = 86%
- Xbox = 14%
RE4 Remake did not release on Xbox One, but it did release on PS4, but it only sold 9% on PS4. More importantly, the sales ratio did not change significantly when digital numbers were added, although that's what everybody keeps implying.
- PlayStation = 77%
- Xbox = 23%
P.S. At this point, the console sales split in the market was 56% (PS5) and 44% (Xbox Series X|S). Yet the software sales difference is so huge.
Yeah there are lots of people all over trying to downplay the UK sales saying digital will make the difference, but we already know in the UK PS digital is almost 2:1 over Xbox on average. PC makes up the other 45% of digital software sales but it kind of has to, that platform is exclusively digital all around.
Games like Elden Ring may be exceptions where once digital's included Xbox can close the gap to ~ 10% - 12%, but those factors aren't at play for SF6. SF6 will probably follow RE4R's trajectory where digital did fuc-all for Xbox in closing the sales gap vs. the PS5 version.
I mean it's only Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, probably the most anticipated game of the entire year.
Hopefully this doesn't start a fake narrative that SF6 "bombed", when we already know the game's sold around 1 million copies (Capcom said SF series reached 49 million back in March, now it's at 50 million).
Like what happened with HFW just because of Elden Ring (when now we know HFW is over 8 million and selling faster than the original, just not Elden Ring or TOTK-fast).
Thirty7ven
Banned
Who needs data when we have the company message.
GHG
Member
5 was also on PC. It didn't "suck".
TheDreadLord
Member
Where is the data showing that SF6 is selling less on Xbox due to GP?
GHG
Member
We literally had someone begging for a F2P version of SF6 in the OT the other day.
No guesses as to what platform they game on. It's sad. These games aren't even that expensive in the grand scheme of things, especially for something like street fighter where it will be supported for close to a decade and you can easily get hundreds of hours out of it.
It might seem harsh, but my view is that if you're an adult and you legitimately can't afford a $60 release then you shouldn't even be spending time faffing around on gamepass, let alone begging on a forum. Find a way to be productive with your time ffs if you're in that situation.
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feynoob
Member
That data is stupid as the game doesn't exist on Xbox one.To those who are downplaying that this physical / boxed sales only, here is the Resident Evil 4 Remake data from just a couple of months ago:
Physical Sales:
Physical + Digital Sales:
- PlayStation = 86%
- Xbox = 14%
RE4 Remake did not release on Xbox One, but it did release on PS4, but it only sold 9% on PS4. More importantly, the sales ratio did not change significantly when digital numbers were added, although that's what everybody keeps implying.
- PlayStation = 77%
- Xbox = 23%
P.S. At this point, the console sales split in the market was 56% (PS5) and 44% (Xbox Series X|S). Yet the software sales difference is so huge.
I guess people fall for these stupid data
feynoob
Member
Where is Xbox one version?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
It's literally explained in that post. But, ok.
feynoob
Member
It's not.
The game doesn't have Xbox one version. It's only xsx/s version.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
My goodness. The ratio barely changes when adjusted.