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PAOerfulone on 16 September 2018

Until video game companies start providing actual figures and numbers of digital sales for their games, that's not going to happen.



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Bofferbrauer2 on 17 September 2018
shanbcn said:
Qwark said:
As long as PS, Ninty and MS don't give that information I would say no. Besides if its a PS4/Xone game add a multiplier of 1.45 and you will get pretty close anyways. For Nintendo its probably about 20% and PC over 90%

I want Vgcharts to add that multiplier on sales. For PS4 and Xbox games at least.

The ratio on digital sales can vary just as much as the COMG ratio, so just putting a multiplier would very much falsify the results.

So yeah, until platform holders (which includes Steam, GOG and so on on PC) start sharing that data, I'd say we leave them out



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Dr.Vita on 17 September 2018
Jranation said:
Dr.Vita said:

Sometime in the near future they will be so important that VGChartz can't afford to ignore them anymore.

You should read what Bristow said. Its not about the importance of digital sales.

Link plz?




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Jranation on 18 September 2018
Dr.Vita said:
Jranation said:

You should read what Bristow said. Its not about the importance of digital sales.

Link plz?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8887300 



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darkenergy on 18 September 2018
shanbcn said:

I believe Vgcharts should start estimating and including digital sales. Right now sales of recent games don't make any sense and neither they represent actual sold units. Just look at Uncharted 4, God of War, etc we got exact official numbers but on Vgcharts they are still off.

Its time Vgcharts started estimating digital sales.

Digital sales should've been tracked years ago starting with Halo 5 or further.



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