GTA V sold 220M+, but it was across 7 platforms and 3 console generations.
Fun with numbers:
GTA V sales:
PS4: 25M
PS3: 21M
Animal Crossing sales:
Switch: 50M
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
Being a gamer since the 90s and seeing how companies execute 10 year plans; here's how i speculate this will go:
Step 1: Over Price games.
Step 2: Make Digital games artificially cheaper. (We are here)
Step 3: Get majority users to buy digital.
Step 4: Abandon physical next generation since majority audience has been conditioned to purchase digitally. Expect cope comments like
"Who needed physical anyway? Digital has been the cheaper option for awhile now"
Step 5: Over Price Digital games.
Step 6: Check Mate. You no longer have a free market to trade or buy or sell preowned games. And now the market value of video games is 100% in the hands on the corporations.
Younger people wont even question it. It'll be a culture ingrained in their childhoods.
It does affect me, because people who have never once played the game are giving the most feedback to developers over social media. Which means the direction of the games that I purchase are being decided by people who have never touched the game.