Resident Evil: Requiem made more money from PlayStation discs than on Xbox in total, reportedly, as Sony's march to a discless future continues
Physical disc-based copies of Resident Evil: Requiem on PlayStation consoles may have been more popular than all versions of the game on Xbox, a new report has found, while unearthing a trove of other statistics about physical sales.
Physical disc-based copies of Resident Evil: Requiem on PlayStation consoles may have been more popular than all versions of the game on Xbox, a new report has found, while unearthing a trove of other statistics about physical sales.
The short version
- In Japan, there's even stronger support for physical game sales.
- First-party PlayStation and Japan-centric games such as Capcom releases tend to sell more physical copies there. have a larger slice of its total sales be physical than other types of games.
- Elliott surmises that's because physical games are more "ingrained in the culture" there.
What happened
44 percent of Pragmata's copies sold were physical, for example, and 44.1 percent of Onimusha: Way of the Sword's sales were physical too. With Japan responsible for 12 percent of Onimusha's sales and 11 percent of Pragmata's, the nation's buying habits are enough to make a substantial impact on global statistics.
Why it matters
It's against that backdrop that the new, digital-only and Japan-exclusive PS5 Black has launched in Japan, for $350, with a separate disc drive sold for $75.
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