Yeah i can say with full confidence this stat indicates spiderman 2 underperformed
diesney doesn’t get 50 of the console sales. They get 50 of the game bundled . And that’s probably less than 2mil. So it’s nothing burger when bundles supposed to be free game. They even managed to squeeze in
the game is at least 50% physical as well, so that leaves around 30% as full priced digital copies where sony gets 100% of revenue. 5.5 mil physical, 3 mil digital, 2m bundle.
no but the retailers buy them at wholesale and you have to pay for distributors and shipping
It's also possible that lower console sales and game sales are due to the $70 price tag, lack of a permanent price cut to $399 for the console itself, overall economic conditions and inflation/pressure on finances on the lower and middle classes. I think it's a little too early to say that PS5 sales are falling due to PC ports because the effect is much more gradual. I think we'll really start to see the effect starting with PS6.
Again, I'm sure it's all a coincidence and that some people predicted it and got incredibly lucky. And this year, if they miss their targets again, I'm sure it will all be a coincidence again. And I don't fundamentally disagree with your arguments here as well, they must have an impact too.
The reason why I say it's likely not due to PC is because the PC numbers have been falling as well, if it was because people were abandoning console you'd expect to see an increase in PC sales. But both AMD and nvidia have reported absolutely horrible performance in their gaming divisions' revenues, far worse than consoles have been doing.
There's a difference between not buying a graphics card vs not buying a console though. A very big one.
How do you want me to explain? It's like saying there's a difference between buying a car or an expensive engine instead. A console is plug and play, "cheap", whereas a graphics card is part of a whole machine and can't do anything on its own. You can't compare both.
but you are saying people are leaving console due to PC. You aren't gaming on PC without a GPU, especially not a Sony game - not with integrated graphics at least. Pretty sure things like the semicustom designs of the Steamdeck APUs are also counted as gaming revenue so no, I don't get your point.
But you don't need to upgrade your graphics card?
what you're saying is something fundamentally different though, you're saying people already on pc aren't going to buy a ps5
Hard to gauge game sales on PC bcos games on PC are pirated like hell
