Amentallica
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Black Ops 2 still making more money than games that are coming out today. So sad.
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Digital console games made $263M in January 63% from PlayStation platforms
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Interesting. Isn't this what a certain banned site does too?
Ah some revisionist history. Yup that was MS "hickup".
So VISA tells you what we are buying? That seems like a privacy violation.
Joke post?
IndoAssassin
Banned
Too bad most of the physical releases have required day 1 patches to function properly
Welcome, and thanks for releasing your top 10 data and coming by to answer questions. Is your company attempting to count all worldwide sales revenue for PSN and XBL only? Why are you excluding Nintendo?
Again, thanks for coming by and speaking with us.
Diprosalic
Banned
AmuroChan
Member
"It will last just fine" is rather vague. If you manage your digital games well, they will also last just fine. Digital games will also play on any system. I've gone through three 360's and two PS3's. At no point did I have to re-purchase the games I already owned. Bottom line is, your argument for physical game media is not one that most people care about. People don't mind digital games and the risks associated with them. We see that with Steam, mobile, and now consoles as digital game downloads continue to trend up.
If they do all identifying data will have been scrubbed. Also if your concerned about that it's the same that Walmart is doing with NPD. Walmart also gets your name and card number but I am sure they scrub that data.
Nah, VISA is a third party, it isn't product that they own that they are selling and giving information on how much they are selling/buying. They are just a facilitator. Almost like if Google was giving out information about how many items of a certain type people were purchasing through their Chrome browser. Heck, they may be doing that, but I didn't think so.
According to the data, the roles actually didn't reverse, since PS3 makes a large chunk of the digital revenue.
AmuroChan
Member
That's not going to be true for every game. 20 years from now when I put in my Titanfall disc, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to play it because the servers would've been shut down long before. As online integration become more and more a part of gaming, the "advantage" that physical game discs had over digital games becomes less and less apparent.
Looking forward to the CEO answering your questions!VISA doesn't know what I'm buying even, they just know how much cash I'm putting in my digital wallet.
JumpJeff84
Member
Cool. Seeing as REmake did so well, I hope Revelations 2 does great. Then maybe Capcom will embrace old school Resident Evil for future games
I don't see why people would buy digital games on consoles, but that's not because I think digital is bad... In fact, I have nearly 300 ebooks and nearly 500 Steam games. The issue with digital console games is that I have no guarantee future consoles will be backwards compatible and thus playable on future hardware. While I don't have that guarantee with physical games either, I can at least sell them and supposedly get some money back.
Sadly, this is becoming less and less true. With all the day-one patches and updates throughout, much of games' content is obtained via network anyway. When service ultimately goes down, even physical games will be incomplete and perhaps even restricted to varying levels of playability.
Why is this fear mongering? Each side has valid positives and negatives, it is just a simple choice. I never said no one should be buying digital, I have digital games myself. I simply am saying there are positives and negatives to each and depending on each persons situation, one might be a better option than the other.
For me, I prefer physical, doesn't make me wrong or right, just what I prefer. I have friends who prefer digital, they are equally right/wrong as me. Do what you like, but neither is the absolute better way for all people.
thelastword
Banned
Very welcomed information. Looking at the NPD, it just seemed incomplete to me and I always debated that digital sales is on the rise. It's kinda refreshing to have an official source (just like NPD) on digital sales.
Another curiosity this confirms is that Sony is at the forefront of digital sales, even before that going by anecdotal evidence one could infer that quite a few PS4 owners are strictly digital customers as well.
Another curiosity this confirms is that Sony is at the forefront of digital sales, even before that going by anecdotal evidence one could infer that quite a few PS4 owners are strictly digital customers as well.
interesting. Here I was thinking it was just an estimate. NPDs missing a lot of revenue without digital it seems.
The Praiseworthy
Member
Good numbers.
And as usual.. The digital only future discussion is here.
Forget it guys, the High sales of digital doesn't mean the death of physical.
Physical and digital will continue to co-exist side by side.
There will be always people who prefer physical and there is always people who prefer digital... Companies won't kill a media in favor for another because giving options to customers is the key to gain more sales, and if they took one option and fourced them with only the other one then they will risk the lose of a lot of sales....... And they are not crazy to do that.
And as usual.. The digital only future discussion is here.
Forget it guys, the High sales of digital doesn't mean the death of physical.
Physical and digital will continue to co-exist side by side.
There will be always people who prefer physical and there is always people who prefer digital... Companies won't kill a media in favor for another because giving options to customers is the key to gain more sales, and if they took one option and fourced them with only the other one then they will risk the lose of a lot of sales....... And they are not crazy to do that.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Europe would buy more games on consoles digitally if the prices weren't so fucking insane. £55 for new games is a joke and anyone that pays it is an idiot. It's just way cheaper to get games at retail and I think that's the main reason we haven't embraced digital on consoles as much as the US probably have. Your games are $60 digital and retail, right?
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
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lol, Officer What-if? in the house.
What if the Earth explodes, how are you going to play your games then?
Interesting. Hardcore gamers only buy PS4s, confirmed then.
Two things are important to remember - PS4 has more games than Xbone, and PS4 install base is significantly higher.
Onimusha78
Member
I live in the uk and I've been embracing their prices for about a year now. £36 for new releases is awesome
Emedan
Member
I got games I bought on Steam 10 years ago, I can download and play them right now - What I don't have is a single disc based game since then. The analogy could be applied to consoles as well. The thing about digital content is that its persistent. When digital platforms become unavailable I'm sure solutions will come up.
BlockheadBrown
Member
Is there any freely available/published data to back the claim up? I'd prefer detailed numbers rather than near-fanboy stuff like this.
No, it's higher but not disproportionately so given the install bases. I'd actually consider it low in that light.
NPD also estimates digital sales, likely with more datapoints than SuperData.
alexandros
Banned
These numbers seem quite low to me.
That was an easy $10mil for Capcom. They must be pleased.
Joke post or #neogafshitpost
geordiemp
Member
I buy games digitally as we have 2 ps4's. I buy the game once.
Its cheaper. I am not an idiot lol.
tattooed_dwarf
Member
It's weird how they get these numbers. And what are percentage of Xbox one and 360 sales? 63% for Playstation isn't that surprising given how much bigger their install base is.
Crimson_Gold
Member
But the average metacritic score...
It does actually make sense. There is a larger digital library and as someone else has mentioned, the ability to buy a game once and have it on 2 PlayStation saves money. I'm all for saving money. Buying a new HDD and going all digital going forward.
Let me know if I read wrong, but ...
Given that we're talking PS3+PS4 vs X360+XB1:
Playstation ecosystem: roughly 104m (85+19)
Xbox ecosystem: roughly 96m (85 + 11)
Differerential of instal base put on a 100 base: PS=52, XB=48
Actual digital software sale differential for the month (again, if the data presented here is accurate): PS=63, XB=37
That's a huge difference imo. If it's not due to PS ecosystem buyers actually being more digital oriented, the only other explanation I could see (beside the data being wrong) would be that somehow the PS+ offering is included in the "sales" on PS ecosystems.
AFAICT you also need to include Nintendo, so 63% is quite surprising.
Wouldn't including Nintendo make the cut even more disproportionate in favor of the PS4 though? I wonder if they just didn't compare PS eco vs XB eco, given how the charts seem to be dominated by third parties that simply aren't on Nintendo systems.