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Nintendo reports a full 38.5% of its sales are still physical in the wake of Sony abandoning discs (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] TAG@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because Nintendo did not provide these statistics (directly). This is data mined from their financial filings. Nintendo reported their total software revenue and broke it down between transactions that occurred via their digital store front and outside of it. At the surface level, Nintendo is just explaining to its investors why it is worth selling via both a first party digital store (which is a large expense I imagine) and third party stores.

Any assumptions about physical vs. digital game sales are strictly coming from reporters pulling numbers out of context.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

but then, wouldn’t the "physical" stats also include download codes you can buy at stores? maybe those are few enough in sales to be negligible, idk

it would also certainly include game key cards