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Burek on 27 August 2015

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/mcv-to-drop-charts-for-first-time-in-17-years/0154997

 

Basically, they protest that all major publishers hide digital sales data.

Valve gives worldwide sales but not regional, MS provides only X360 data, and Sony gives nothing except a monthly list with no data.

The squaw that stroked a camel's sack was last week's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, which would have come #1 but failed to chart completely because it is digital only.

They protest and demand that digital sales data gets shared by publishers (not necessarily to MCV, but to NPD, ChartTrack etc.)

 But even a boring-old Top Ten has its PR advantages. Look at our sister industries and how they promote their products:

‘Go Set a Watchman. A New York Time’s Best-Seller’

‘The Number One album by Ellie Golding’

‘The Box Office Smash Hit of the summer, Inside Out’.

Last week, Sony should have been calling Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture: ‘The UK’s most popular video game’.

But that’s not what our Top 40 says, so it was unable to do that.

This is what today’s edition of MCV is all about – one major plea to the decision makers from across the game world to share their sales figures.



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bananaking21 on 27 August 2015

"MCV has long campaigned for the need to share data so that the games industry can grow and highlight to politicians and investors just how exciting our market is."

 

bullshit. MCV wants this because their chart helps them get money. dont get me wrong, i am all for knowing digital sales data, but MCV should not act all high and mighty. 

 

i do hope we know PSN, Steam and XBL sales, though i doubt we ever will. 



Burek on 27 August 2015
bananaking21 said:

"MCV has long campaigned for the need to share data so that the games industry can grow and highlight to politicians and investors just how exciting our market is."

 

bullshit. MCV wants this because their chart helps them get money. dont get me wrong, i am all for knowing digital sales data, but MCV should not act all high and mighty. 

 

i do hope we know PSN, Steam and XBL sales, though i doubt we ever will. 

"You don’t have to give that information to us – I appreciate we are just a bunch of untrustworthy journalists. But share it with NPD and Enterbrain and Chart-Track. Let them put together a better chart."



binary solo on 27 August 2015

It's the only 100% accurate global sales data that's possible to collect. All other sell through information is an estimate.



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teigaga on 27 August 2015

With them here, don't see what there is to hide



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Porcupine_I on 27 August 2015

They could also have been on top of another kind of charts

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-26-uk-charts-accused-of-snobbery-over-everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-soundtrack-snub



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hiccupthehuman on 27 August 2015

I agree with this, it,d be great to also have digital sales numbers available



WC4Life on 27 August 2015

100% true, MCV is doing the right thing here. It will still take a long time before digital sales data becomes the norm but it will happen. At the moment publishers can market their games with retail data but once digital takes over retail it will be beneficial for publishers to provide digital sales data.



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