20% of Destiny Sales were Digital, 1.86 Million Units Sold Digitally - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 November 2014 / 6,309 Views
Superdata has done research about the move to digital from physical in the video game market. The US digital market was worth $96 million in October, while worldwide digital sales are expected to be worth $2.5 million by the end of 2014.
The study has also shown that 20 percent of sales for Destiny were digital. Destiny has sold 7.44 million units at retail through November 8, according to VGChartz. That would put digital sales around 1.86 million units and total sales at 9.3 million units.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. Outside, in the real world, he has a passion for the outdoors which includes everything from hiking to having received his B.A. in Environmental Studies. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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"The US digital market was worth $96 million in October, while worldwide digital sales are expected to be worth $2.5 million by the end of 2014."
Surely you mean $2.5 billion??
But 2.5bn is $2500million, that leaves the US with only ~4% of total Digital sales in the world. NO WAY!
Copies that can never be returned.
Probably includes all the PS4 bundles
That's a pretty big chunk.
Is that an industry average? I wonder...
I'd say no. I felt comfortable buying it digitally because its an online only game.
Well Destiny did break records on the PS Store so probably not
