Hmm, if the insiders can actually garner some of this information it should give us a better picture of how games are actually performing. Hopefully the digital share is more than we realize, and things are doing better than we thought :)

Cool but from what I understand we'll need leaks because official data won't give us digital ratios.

step in the right direction, however those notable exception are pretty bloody big exceptions.

Alright, just relalized we won't have leaks... or well, we'll rarely have.

Still a great news but we'll see.

Nice, but not all publishers giving their data will obviously fuck up software rankings.

Also, is it fair to assume that the publishers giving their sales data are including PC versions? I'd assume so.

Digital for console games will overtake the 50% mark in the next few years and makes up a huge chunk of consoles game sales so it's surprising it's taken this long. With the digital data being more buried than the other data, hopefully we still get snippets of digital ratios from either publishers or leakers.

We will also start to see PC games feature in the NPD charts more often so we can get a better comparison of PC vs Console game sales. So even if we don't get digital data, we should still get the top 10 chart with PC digital sales taken into account.

Yes this is great news, digital already makes up a good chunk of overall sales. I hope we'll get leaks so we benefit from this information.

Great news! And about damn time, they're running 6-7 years behind schedule, I can't believe investors and subscribers didn't hound them more about this than they have until now.

investors and subscribers can hound them all they like, in the end digital isn't like physical, they can't go to the retailers to get the information as it is purely in the hands of the publishers and whether they can convince them to share, seems they still haven't convinced MS, Sony or Nintendo and to be honest I am not suprised as their isn't a lot in it for them to share this info.

I know that, but it would still be in everyone's best interest a long time ago to track digital in a better way, it had become a huge market, especially on PC, where it makes the vast majority of sales by now, consoles are catching up and selling more digital copies as well.

But, yes, I know there are differences.