TheOminousBlade

PHYSICAL MEDIA ALWAYS.

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@WAVArchive An entire WAV drop is crazy😭 (Got the album on Flac if you want it)

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@DuneAwakening Is there any plans for a physical release for XBOX?

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@Zoltan43687948 @IAmKonX @IGN I’m willing to bet they aren’t making any announcements right now because they are lowkey just executing people at HQ

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@CharlieBur63063 @DuboiseDam21868 @Halo You weren’t there for the 360 era, just say it

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@nib95_ You are doing wonders🫡

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They lied.

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Seen several quote #PlayStation's 78% digital full game sales, thus omitting important context.

That figure includes countless digital only releases, from back catalogue to indie games etc. Even Capcom revealed 84% of its sales were "older catalog titles", many of which are only available digitally.

So using such data is somewhat misleading.

To gauge REAL physical demand you need to look at splits of games that released both physical AND digital only. Thanks to the Insomniac leaks, we have such data on PS first party games.

Playstation Physical / Digital splits

Sackboy - 77% / 23%
R&C Rift Apart - 76% / 24%
Ghost of Tsushima DC - 71% / 29%
Demon's Souls - 70% / 30%
Miles Morales - 66% / 34%
Spider-Man - 66% / 34%
Returnal - 61% / 39%
The Last of Us 2 - 61% / 39%
Ghost of Tsushima - 51% / 49%
MLB The Show 21 - 39% / 61%

So per Sony's own internal data, 31/33 first party games from their chart sold more PHYSICAL than they did digital.

Uncharted 4 actually has an insane 83% physical split.

Granted it only covers through to a few months into 2022, but we can see from other more recent data, things haven't drastically changed. For example GSD data shows ~60% of Astro Bot sales across Europe were physical.

So what skews revenue and data more digital, beyond digital only releases and platforms? The answer is games with LIVE SERVICE components, especially multiplatform ones.

As you can see from Sony's internal data, MLB has the highest digital split, and it's a live service game.

Generally the highly popular live service or annualised games such as Call of Duty, NBA 2K, FIFA etc, have higher digital splits, as gamers are constantly launching them (often daily) and don't want to be constantly switching discs, thus skewing digital/physical splits.

It's very different to single player games which are shorter and have different play and consumer trends. So again, context matters.

Then there's a MASSIVE audience of gamers that aren't even accounted for in any of this data; the countless consumers that buy and sell used physical games, because they simply can't afford as many new games, but still buy/own consoles, accessories, games, services etc. Everything from poor parents, kids etc.

Ultimately, the data rejects the notion physical is dead or meaningless, even if digital accounts for the overall lionshare of revenue/sales, especially when you look at things with the proper context and/or focus on single player tentpole games, which is PlayStation's bread and butter.

Keep in mind platforms make a 15% licensing fee from third parties on physical games, while they get a 30% cut on digital.

Likewise first party lose a 30% cut to retailers on physical, while they keep all of the revenue on digital.

As I said before, this move to kill physical is more about PlayStation trying to make far more profit and squeeze away the last remnants of consumer ownership, control, flexibility and resale, and could have greater negative market ramifications.

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@kingdavidotw Ryse: son of rome

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@pcgamer I lowkey would defend anti-piracy when I was younger, nowadays I can’t even blame them

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@IAmKonX @IGN And if helix has a disc drive?🤨

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@Shadowling000 @AzeranZyxtron56 @ShitpostRock Oh ok, I have Siberia and all I had to do was download DirectX 7 to get it to work. But GOG MENTIONED🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

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@DuboiseDam21868 @Halo Yeah🫤, but I do think that XBOX is gonna keep physical media going, XBOX has been pro-consumer for MOST of its lifespan (looking at you Don Mattrick)

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@AzeranZyxtron56 @ShitpostRock They can, you just have to download older directX

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@ShitpostRock Fellas, only one of the consoles has all but one…

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@RinoTheBouncer Playstation. No disc no buy.

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@44F0rc3 @Stallion83 5 days early or the freedom to own my games… tough decision but I choose freedom

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@ShadowEliteHD @PlayerEssence You act like they don’t have the brand deal lmao

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@RinoTheBouncer Not to mention that 15% figure is misleading, if I buy even one digital game out of my 100’s of game discs, I’m counted toward that statistic

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@Trevornoah Oh this guy has a reallt interesting poi- TREVER NOAH?!

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@44F0rc3 @Stallion83 Do people think you can’t just… pick it up?