| ioi said: @ssj12 - I don't agree. When Activision say 14 million copies of COD4:MW they will be referring to retail copies and downloads - they both count as a "sale" for Activision. Also most publishers are counting dowload sales - it is just that the sales are relatively small in most cases. When Activision list total sales, top sellers etc it will be inclusive of everything - retail, MMO, dowloads, expansion packs - every way they they have made money basically. |
Then why doesn't publishers that use the PSN, XBLA, WiiWare, and other DD methods display sales information for DD only games? And why does Valve only release information of B&M sales and just tells us about massive digital purchase increases whenever they have sales on their games? Remember Valve stated Half-Life sells over a million digital copies a year still but they refuse to give out any information on exactly how many copies have been purchased on Steam.
I'm thinking something is off it the minds of publishers thinking that if they don't give the public, let alone companies like us, details on DD sales that we will all believe sales are either fine and dandy or piss poor. I do not understand why they do as they do. Shouldn't DD be a separate area on income statements considering even if they only receive $400,000 of revenue from multiple DD platforms that is more than enough to show that the platform should be separated from the individual systems? Unless of course there is a massive loop hole in which development teams are considered substitaries making it so that it is impossible for the public to find out through publisher financial records.
