| ioi said: @ssj12 - I'm not sure what you're saying. Publishers don't release figures for 95% of retail games, the only ones that get featured in financial reports are the games doing 2-3m+. They are picked out as examples of titles that have been successful. Battlefield 1943 had a huge opening two weeks ago - by far the biggest ever for a downaload game (it took ~40% of all XBLA sales for July with just a weeks worth of sales). It was reported because it was a success. Download sales for most download games don't get reported in financial reports seperately since they don't normally sell that much, the same reason why 100s of retail games never have sales revealed. |
Even if a game isn't reported on financial reports companies like us, the NPD Group, GfK, etc should be able to get the sales information from publishers but we can't.
Also yes BF1943's record sales were announced but how many copies were sold?
I believe the reason for this is B&M retailers, like Scoobes second point states. Employees at Gamestop are not allowed to talk about DD sources including the PSN, XBLA, and WiiWare because they do not get any revenue from sales of titles on any DD service.
This is also why Sony cannot stop UMD game production even though the PSP Go is digital download only. If they canned the PSP-3000 or any future PSPs with UMD drives without providing even vouchers of some form to retail sell no retailer in the world but Sony would sell it.
