They haven't. Activision itself said that the numbers they reported were only from 5/6 markets, most of them console-centric. They didn't include numbers from portugal, sweden, norway, finland, iceland, russia, ukraine, poland, and other dozens of countries, and no doubt they didn't even mention the digital sales. for example, when they reported COD4 sold 7 millions it only encompassed North America, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Benelux. Only France, Germany and Benelux are PC-centric, but they can't even compare to North-America (USA+Canada), UK, Italy and Spain. This means they left out dozens of PC-centric countries and digital sales. |
So the electronic gaming industry is bigger in these other PC-centric countries by a factor of what? Can you list that number? Please state how much more video/computer games sell in Eastern Europe and Asian then the markets mentioned. Can you even do this? Or, do you like to lurk behind fog, with the belief in this fog is a monster that will devower all the console peons that refuse to bow to the glory of your PC master race. And if these markets are so huge, as you hint at, and digital downloads as large as you are making them out to be, why doesn't Acitivision list them? Are they hiding these revenues offshore in accounts, to avoid paying taxes? Isn't there laws against this, and there could be a class-action lawsuit by shareholders for underreporting revenue? Or, is it that the money from digital downloads and unreported countries are unknown by Activision, and it shows up in unmarked bills in their corporate headquarters when they aren't looking? In other words, they accounting flat out SUCKS that they are unable to track revenue. Or is it that you count PIRATING of games as actual digital distribution of games?
And how much bigger is digital downloads over the entire videogame industry? You make it out like Steam is bigger than World of Warcraft.
