Silent_Buddha
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Well deserved. I'm quite happy for From Software. While the game certainly has technical issues, it's just an overall incredible game.
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SB
All purpose Sales and Sales Rumours and Anecdotes [2022 Edition]
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Well deserved. I'm quite happy for From Software. While the game certainly has technical issues, it's just an overall incredible game.
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SB
Why? The split between consoles sales in UK is probably quite similar to the split for the game and on Ps the game is sandwiched between the releases of HFW, that sold pretty much the same a week before, and the empiding GT7, that should sells quite well in UK. On the XBox side, instead, the schedule of releases seems quite more sparse, at this moment.
Elden Ring overall UK sales split.
There's some narratives going around on some dubious forums and social media sites. It was two fold, that Xbox gamers don't buy games and that PS5 was outselling Xbox by more than 3:1. So to have the breakdown being 41% : 29% kind of goes against those (false) claims.
It's not just that but I also assumed the souls type games were more popular on the sony systems
I think once we factor in all other territories (i.e., US, Canada, Japan, Germany, etc.), then we'll have a better perspective on how well Elden Ring sold across individual consoles. February's NPD (depending on the cutoff day/week) should at least give us some clue on how well it sold across US platforms.
Silent_Buddha
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Here's one thing I find shocking. Using SteamSpy estimates of 10-20 million copies sold on Steam in its first week, then Elden Ring potentially has sold 20-60 million copies (using PC as representing somewhere between 33-50% of sales) world-wide. Even using the lower bound and assuming that the game sells relatively better on PC than consoles like Dark Souls 3 that's potentially quite a remarkable number.
Keyword being potentially. While SteamSpy estimates can give a ballpark number, it's still an estimate at the end of the day as they can only count owners of the game who have their profiles set to be publicly viewable. Hence the large range representing the unknown factor of how many people with publicly hidden profiles might own the game.
To put that into perspective, it might possibly have sold faster in its first week than either GTA V or RDR 2.
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SB
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I seriously doubt it. 20 million is possible though.
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Not to be that guy, but doesn't this have just as much to do with Xbox stock levels, and more importantly, demand for Xbox consoles. I admit I haven't kept an eye on monthly sales in European markets, but has Xbox consoles of any generation ever outsold Sony consoles? This isn't the first time that Sony had demand that outpaced it's supply, but it might be the first time Microsoft has made an alternative that is desirable, or at least not undesirable enough to be seen as a viable alternative.
I haven't been keeping an eye on European sales market at all. However, my gut feel is that in the European Market, I think you'd have to go back to the PS360 era.
With the stock, surely, with the demand, we don't know. If,for example, in the past XBox sold 10 and PS sold 30 and now XBox sell 10 and PS sell 8, there is no increased demand for XBox. Without data, it's impossible to say.
Typically in this type of scenario if a person considers PS5 and Xbox to be substitute goods (which they share over 90% of the major libraries with each other) I would think demand would shift to what's available, and in this case it's both cheaper and available. I think even though demand outstrips supply for PS5, that pent up demand may also be responsible for outstripping supply on Xbox as well. So Xbox is taking on more customers than before because they need to supply their own customers and take on new ones because people want a next gen console and cannot get their hands on a ps5.
I don't disagree, but isn't PS5 outselling Series by a large margin in Europe? Like nearly 2:1 or something? If that was the case there would have to be a massive drop in supply for PS5's for Series to "win" a month by staying the same.
This is true in the abstract, but certain companies, like Sony or Apple, have brand loyalty that bucks this trend. Unless, of course, the competition has some sort of feature or software that pulls people away. The obvious thing to look at is Gamepass, of course, but honestly, I don't know if I would buy it. Not for the core Playstation gamer who cares about the Sony exclusives, because while Microsoft has had a great year for software, they don't have that narrative rich 3rd person action adventure game that Sony has in spades. And Horizon just launched. A game in that very category.
Haven't seen anything of that sort since last generation with PS4 and Xbox One (that wasn't just unsubstantiated forum banter).
About all the average consumer can readily get their hands on is a Series S. Been that way for quite a while. In a sense it's been the only game in town for months.
It's hard to make any generalizations without a full supply environment. Who knows when that will be at this point.
Oh BTW on twitter it's going around the MS paid a "pretty penny" for more Xbox chips this year. Makes sense with what we are seeing.
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Here in spain (good example of normal europe, as the UK is an outlier compared to the rest of the continent) the numbers of PS5's have really dried up the last few weeks (not sure why perhaps they rushed some of the jan/feb stock to make xmas?)
https://vandal.elespanol.com/notici...-debut-en-espana-con-60000-unidades-vendidas/
you can see demand/ave price has even risen the last few weeks (41% price premium), series X is also similar (19% price premium)
https://stockx.com/sony-ps5-playstation-5-blu-ray-edition-console-white
The only surprising thing is why demand for series S is so low (sure its crap but it must be better than nothing), they could sell 10x the numbers if they wanted to but for some reason they are not, ppl are just waiting for a series X I suppose
How long is this shortage gonna last? First covid and now russia (not sure how much of an impact this is having with consoles, though it is impacting some supplies in supermarkets here in catalonia)
Saw this story a couple of days ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60709207 (*)
They should just raise the price of the PS5/series X to 600, of course scalpers will still exist but it would reduce the problem.
500 was perhaps the right price when it launched but then covid/supply issues happened, the market should be flexible to account for this, now all thats happening is the scalpers are pocketing this extra 100 (and they will for the rest of the year)
(*)"Rather than being greedy, Mr Bayliss said scalpers were simply trying to make some extra cash. But for some, he said it was also to make a living."
Like a lot of middlemen, they literally add nothing (this is true for so many businesses, esp financial markets are full of these tossers that attempt to justify their BS)
The drop of Ps5 stock is crazy in Europe
https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-130-playstation-5-were-sold-in-spain-last-week.561886/
They sold only 130 PS5 one week in Spain
https://vandal.elespanol.com/notici...ndida-en-espana-en-la-ultima-semana-de-enero/
Last year last week of january they sold 5050 PS5 in Spain
And tsince the beginning of 2022 between the number of games released and the people waiting the console they could have sold much more PS5.
And the neon gas problem in Ukraine. This is horrible.
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