Three years ago, Niko Partners’ renowned senior analyst Daniel Ahmad wrote about the distribution of digital game sales to the consoles, and explained that it is “You really have to emphasize how big the digital sector is on Xbox compared to other platforms”.
At the same time write Games industry a report that showed that more physical games were still sold for PlayStation consoles than digital ones. But since then, digital has grown at a rapid pace, even on PlayStation, and in a new report on it Blue-eyed reveals Circana (NPD), CEO and video game analyst Mat Piscatella, what digital game distribution looks like in the US in 2024.
It turns out that what Ahmad says is still true, and that digital is the most popular for Xbox Series S / X, but for PlayStation 5 it currently accounts for more than three out of four titles sold – and even for Switch there are more. any other games sold digitally:
“For the January-August period, across all titles with physical and digital sales tracking, 53% of Switch software sales were made digitally compared to 52% in the same period last year.
PS5 is now 78% digital compared to 75% digital last year. 91% of XBS software was sold digitally this year, compared to 90% last year.”
This year, therefore, more than nine out of ten games sold for the Xbox Series S/X have been digital. We don’t know why Xbox gamers have been more optimistic about digital game sales for years, but Microsoft was early on with hard drives for the original Xbox and had all-digital Xbox Live Arcade titles very early on for the Xbox 360, giving players access. to get used to the facility that you can only buy titles from the dashboard – which may be part of the explanation.
What do you think is behind the huge differences in how games are consumed on the different consoles?
2024-10-19 00:21:00
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