UK Boxed Charts: Week 20, 2024 (May 12 - May 18)

[Cool hand luke]

Not sure where in that link shows PC games sales are lower than 30% when removing Switch

In fact including Switch by the graph it is no lower than 16% for PC and depending how much of physical is PC it go higher.

But let’s pretend PC had no physical (it had like Elden ring showed) that means 84% needs to be split between PS, Switch and Xbox.
Let’s say Xbox is 10%… that left 74% to PS and Switch… around 37% each?

Now let’s remove Switch… you have 37% + 16% + 10% = 63%… 16 / 73 = 25%.

So between PS, PC and Xbox… PC has at least 25% of the sales.

Remember that not including PC physical and assuming PS had at least half of what of PS5/Switch %… if Switch is higher the PC % increases too.

So ~40% PS, ~30% PC and ~20% Xbox I showed is pretty close to what that graph shows.

70:25:5

 

[ethomaz]

70:25:5

That goes against the link you showed.
Unless your 70 includes PS and Switch... but if that is the case PC is too high... it is around 20%.

Edit - I will try to explain better... the thread you showed have:

Digital PC: 236.6m
Digital Console: 722.8m (PS, Xbox and Switch)
Physical Console and PC: 495m (PS, Xbox, Switch and PC)

PC is at minimum here 16.3% (236.6 / 1454.4).
But that minimum is not counting the part of PC revenue in "Physical Console and PC".
Console (that includes PS, Xbox and Switch) are at maximum 83.7%.

Now it come the guess work.
I will not post all math but depending on PS / Switch / Xbox ratio for these 83.7% the things are:

PS (40%), Switch (40%), Xbox (20%): when comparing only PS, Xbox and PC then PS is at max 50% and PC at minimum 30%.

If the revenue trend more to Switch or Xbox side then PS will be lower than 50% and PC way higher than 30%.
If the revenue trend more to PS side then PS will maybe higher than 50% and PC maybe lower than 30% (maybe because PC still lacks physical revenue).

I don't believe Switch is that much weak than PS in revenue in UK... in fact I believe they are stronger.

Everything leads me to believe that PS ~40-50%, PC 30-40% and Xbox 10-20%.
And PS and PC are 10-20 percent points difference in UK.

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[quest4441]

Elden Ring sold more on PC than consoles, of the overall 25 million sales the pc version stands at 13-15 million range

 

[ethomaz]

Elden Ring sold more on PC than consoles, of the overall 25 million sales the pc version stands at 13-15 million range

I don't believe that is the case...
And most trackers that trend to overestimate Steam sales put it at max 12.5m.

• ~10.10 M by PlayTracker
• ~11.97 M by Gamalytic
• ~12.52 M by VG Insights

PC is probably the biggest platform for Elden Ring.
Maybe something like PC 11-12m, PS 9-10m and Xbox 3-5m.

 

[anonpuffs]

I think gamalytic usually has the best estimates