Why VGChartz doesn't count PC sales...

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Captian_Twig on 26 July 2008

To all of you who think that we should, we don't because while everyone buys a PS3, Xbox 360, or a Wii for games, people buy a PC for work about half of the time and have gaming as their convenient side offer. There. No duh.... Blatantly obvious... Kinda obvious... Or I could be wrong... I know nothing about PC.

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Aj_habfan on 26 July 2008

I didn't know ioi had an alt account.

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Aj_habfan said:
I didn't know ioi had an alt account.

He does? Who is it?

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slimeattack on 26 July 2008

But why don't they post PC game sales?

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pichu_pichu on 26 July 2008

oh, I understand now...

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BenKenobi88 on 26 July 2008

RolStoppable said:
It's called Video Games Chartz, so why should they track sales of computer games?

That makes no sense...

The things you play on your PC are also videogames...

Online sales like digital distribution (like Steam) and subscription games like WoW aren't recorded by anybody, I'm guessing they're hard numbers to get to...so PC game sales would be horribly inaccurate anyway.

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Strategyking92 on 27 July 2008

BenKenobi88 said:

RolStoppable said:
It's called Video Games Chartz, so why should they track sales of computer games?

That makes no sense...

The things you play on your PC are also videogames...

Online sales like digital distribution (like Steam) and subscription games like WoW aren't recorded by anybody, I'm guessing they're hard numbers to get to...so PC game sales would be horribly inaccurate anyway.

well... why not just track retail games sold?

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