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Forums - Sales Discussion - How will VGchartz deal with increasing share of digital sales?

As far as I know, the site only tracks physical sales. And considering digital sales are gathering momentum in the share of total sales the website data will be everyday less-accurate in comparison with reality. This gen it wasn't such a deal for consoles, however, both sony and ms are pushing digital sales in favor of retailers for next-gen. Billboard have technology to track digital sales for music albums, but i dont know if sony and ms will make sales data as available as itunes and amazon music store



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This is a good question. And one I hope ioi responds to.

Has anyone noticed if VGC updates sales of games when their digital sales are announced? Or are they kept the same?



Not.. This site is doooomed..



 

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!) 

I had this question about a month ago. Looks like there may be an answer. Read post by Barozi...5th post down.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=164000&page=1#




I swear I read somewhere that NPD were going to attempt to start tracking digital sales in the future. I'm sure if they can try it; we can try it too. Will probably take a lot of trial & error to begin with.

I'd quite like to hear what ioi's response to this is too, though.



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I hope that if they do start tracking digital sales, that they will state physical, digital, and total sales, so I can see how much it sells physically, and how well physical sales are relative to digital sales.



Kresnik said:
I swear I read somewhere that NPD were going to attempt to start tracking digital sales in the future. I'm sure if they can try it; we can try it too. Will probably take a lot of trial & error to begin with.

I'd quite like to hear what ioi's response to this is too, though.

Will you differentiate between the physical and digital sales?



VGPolyglot said:

Will you differentiate between the physical and digital sales?


I don't deal with the numbers here, I just moderate the forums (every now and again :P)

The person to ask is ioi (creator of VGChartz and guy who does the numbers every week), but he's pretty hard to get a hold of these days.  Making a thread about Gamewise might get his attention.



Allfreedom99 said:
I had this question about a month ago. Looks like there may be an answer. Read post by Barozi...5th post down.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=164000&page=1#

Thanks for the link, that does sound quite promising