Top 10 digital titles generated almost twice as much revenue on PS than Xbox

Superdata research says Sony took 63% share

Survey research from Superdata has indicated that customers spent almost twice as much on the top ten digital titles on PS3 and PS4 than they did on Xbox One and 360 in January, with Sony's platforms taking 63 per cent of the revenue share.

The report comes as the firm launches its new digital coverage, which pulls data from "37 million paying online gamers" and pins an annual total value of $49 billion on the console digital download market. That number, says Superdata, means that digital is now the predominant method for purchasing games.

"The digital games market now constitutes the majority of revenues in interactive entertainment. As consumer spending continues to shift away from retail, the landscape of top performing games is shifting with it."



In terms of platform balance, PlayStation is well ahead of its Microsoft competitor. Even alone, the PS4 generated almost half of all digital console revenues, clocking up 43 per cent of the total. With the addition of the PS3, that figure rises to 63 per cent. The Xbox One and PS4 combined have a 70 per cent margin over their last-gen predecessors.

PS4 to outsell Xbox One by 40% through 2018 - Report

Strategy Analytics predicts Sony to move 80 million consoles compared to Microsoft's 57 million

Sony will be the unquestioned leader through the first five years of the current generation of console wars, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics.

Strategy Analytics predicts that by 2019, Sony will have a global installed base of 80 million PS4s. That would give the company a 40 percent edge on the firm's projected 57 million worldwide installed base for the Xbox One.

Looking at the Xbox One, the system's 12.4 million systems shipped for the first year surpassed the initially supply-constrained Xbox 360's first-year performance of 10.4 million units. However, the report noted that the Xbox One has suffered from some of the same challenges the PS3 faced, like a higher price point than its competition.

"Despite reports to the contrary, the game console market is not dead," said Strategy Analytics senior analyst Eric Smith. "Core gamers have moved faster to this current generation than in any previous generation