There is two sets of conversion rates in the documents, average ones for the period and period end.I wonder where he got the conversion rates from. I used these:
Did Sony stop booking 100% of digital third party transactions, or is their revenue still cooked?
The pandemic had a lot to contribute to this.
Yeah, agreed. I'm not sure if the release of PS4 versions of certain key first-party games shows was originally planned or not (given the time to create those ports, but also taking their original stance of "thinking in generations" into account), but those have softened the blow a bit at least. I don't know if there's much more they could've done. Manufacturing problems and chip shortages are a bitch.
Something's missing.
Cold as ice.Something's missing.
Yes. It makes you wonder if Nintendo will follow suit with their launch line-up for Drake, and beyond.
"Sales data on PS Vita are not disclosed"? C'mon even Nintendo told us about the paltry sales of the Wii U and that must have been excruciating for them.
I am still bit confused why their PSP data only covers to the end of march 2012. PSP still sold few millions after that (In Japan alone over a million)
I think that's when Sony started combining their PSP + PSV sales figures.
I mean yeah but obviously Sony themselves has data just for PSP too so considering how usually companies want to present biggest possible figure for any sales it's bit weird they don't use it here.
A direct revenue comparison between G&NS and Nintendo is tough because Sony doesn't clarify how exactly they account 3rd party revenue. Given the disparity I would guess it's likely they account 100% of all digital revenue but we don't know for sure. This would also help some way in explaining the wide disparity in profit (this time in Nintendo's favor).
Sony does clarify, they count the entirety of the third party digital sale. From their supplementary info:
I mean it's I think it's pretty clear from note 3 that the digital revenue is the entire sale not just the royalty for SIE. I brought up the physical note to show that/how they'd mention a difference.
If I recall correctly, Matt over on Era has mentioned in the past that Xbox/Sony count the $60/$70 as revenue.
None of these companies are so failureproof that it seems wise to say "Because they did X, X must be the best move." I have to think that in a different universe Sony would be happier having shipped more than 13m consoles, even if some of them were PS4s.
Not necessarily, as accounting in the digital space has revenue as the commission as default from what I've seen. It should be easy to spot what is being accounted either way, as the difference between 30% and 100% counted as revenue is 3x.
This isnt something new, Sony has been doing it since last year I believe. And I'm not sure how you could interpret that footnote to mean anything else than yes, they are essentially triple booking their digital revenue.
"Sales data on PS Vita are not disclosed"? C'mon even Nintendo told us about the paltry sales of the Wii U and that must have been excruciating for them.
It's at 117M now. This thread title means that too. Gematsu for some reason thinks it's at 117.2M, but they're wrong.
I'd bet it's rounding errors thanks to the various slightly different ways Sony reports things, and since they report to only the nearest hundred thousand the difference can look pretty big. If you add up all the announced quarterly numbers, it's 117.2. If you add up all the announced yearly numbers, it's 117.1. But they still list the total as "More than 117" whereas a few days ago it was "More than 116.9".
116.9 was up until December 31st 2021.
Official number is "More than 117M"
www.sie.com
Look at this graph from earlier up the thread:
Look at this graph from earlier up the thread:
In FY 2020, SIE reported the split between digital and physical was ~51%. But according to this graph, Digital Software made up 78% of all software sales excluding Add-on Content for that FY.
Unless SIE has ~25% of all its software sales revenue coming from the indie space (somehow becoming the 2nd-largest indie game platform in FY2020 when no one was paying attention) and indie devs are lying to us about how bad sales are on PS platforms, the numbers don't add up and never will if one continues under the assumption that they're only adding royalties on digital software to their revenue line.
Yeah, that's the problem.
