It’s kind of crazy when the marketing wasn’t as large as Horizon yet the numbers still sided with them.
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The platform breakdown will likely convince FROM that playstation exclusivity for future tiltes won’t be cost effective.
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But if Sony funds the game itself, it can be very well exclusive. I don’t remember time exclusive From games.
They achieved legendary status with this game, really happy for them.
Hope they can grow and get better tech going forward.
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They’re not kidding about Xbox sales is all on digital. I guess physical talk is really “useless.”
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Why let Sony fund your game when you can make your own game or continue to get funded by Bamco and release on everything?
But that’s assuming Sony would be coming after them now, if it’s true they are making an exclusive for Sony it was agreed long ago
It has been for a long, long time, but everyone remains obsessed with physical sales in the UK for whatever strange reason.
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Because its one of the few areas Sony is still dominant
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People love numbers and UK is the only country to provide immediate numbers on a weekly basis so people run to them first.
MS gives a lot of reason to go digital with the MS rewards punch If there is a punch card. They also have a significantly better refund policy.
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Yeah, but they’re largely meaningless. When your headline is “Game sells twice as many copies on PS than on Xbox”, but when you dig into the info, the numbers are something like 2,000 to 1,000. 
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Agreed but people don’t know that lol, they just latch on to whoever reports the numbers first.
It’s been like this since the 360 days, UK was always first to report and people run with it.
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The more the time change, things remain the same.
Because why not? Why games are exclusive in the first place? Because somebody pays for it - whether it is a platform holder or a multiplatform publisher.
Yeah, I just wish “Games Journalists” would stop doing it. They need their clicks though, so… 
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Looking at this Elder Ring numbers
84% digital is close to 90% that I have envisioned. Crazy.
In this, I would like to know actually how much copies amounts to PS4 to PS5 to XBS and to Xbox One separately.
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It just goes to show that ‘traditional’ marketing or putting a massive marketing campaign in place is not necessarily the be all and end all.
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I guess my point was Sony would need to put up a very big bag of cash in order for it to be worthwhile for From to make an exclusive
At least from now on, if they already agreed to make an exclusive a year or 2 ago, it would have been easier
This includes digital right?
Overall seems to be a very good split for xbox considering the difference in market share
Xboxs digital share is nuts
Yes.
- Phyisical split was 80/17/3
- Full split 41/29/30