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Forums - Sales Discussion - VGChartz is overtracking Halo Reach or undertracking Alan Wake

ioi said:
- NPD's Halo Reach figures are for US only and don't include hardware bundles (of which there have been a lot)
- This particular bundle (the holiday one) we have been counting towards both Halo Reach and Fable III sales but since we don't track digital sales in this data and want to be consistent, the Halo Reach data will be adjusted accordingly next week to just reflect the stand-alone or retail bundled copies and not the downloads. This is purely for consistency - just because we can track / infer digital sales for some games it doesn't mean we should just add them on when we don't / can't for others...


I personally see nothing wrong with favouritism. Surely for the Xbox flagship we can make a exception, as this site has been all ready doing for a few weeks. 

 



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

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thx1139 said:
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Jexy said:
I say, if you can track it because it's bundled... track it. A sale is a sale. For Reach, Alan Wake, and any other game that is bundled with any console.

agree

I agree. VGC knows about these console sales so it shouldnt matter if physical disk or not. They dont discard sales of bundled discs that dont get played (we have to Wii Play discs and 1 Kinect Adventures disc that have never been used).  I can see not tracking digital sales (notice I said sales) because no way for VGC to find out that info unless MS, Sony, Nintendo wants to open up the books.

Agreed & agreed..

Whenever possible they should count the sales, wheter disc based, or download voucher, just because it isn't a perfect system, doesn't mean it should be fully abandoned.

Thanks for the clarification though ioi :)



even if both Halo Reach and Alan Wake wasn't a bundled game it won't change the fact that Alan Wake sucks and reach is good. Reach sales will always be better than aw, i think if Alan wake was bundled and reach wasn't reach still would out sell wake. Just my way of seeing it