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Slimebeast on 20 February 2010
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mrstickball said:
According to NPD:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26292/Direct2Drive_Recent_Digital_Distribution_Market_Estimates_Misinformation_At_Best.php

Steam has 62% of the market share in terms of units sold, and 50% of dollars. If Valve comprises 50% of unit sales on Steam, then what does that make the skewing of 3rd party games on Steam? That would mean that 3rd party games on Steam sell quite a bit less than you are inferring. Instead of Steam selling 6 times more copies than on other digital services, its closer to 3 times.

I meant in the context of Borderlands.

From your article:

"Steam service led the market handily with 62 percent of total unit sales market share, and 50 percent dollar share. Blizzard.com followed with 20 percent and 27 percent, respectively. EA.com came in third place with 7 percent and 6 percent.

Direct2Drive came in fourth with 7 percent in total unit market share for the period, and 10 percent of dollar share"

^Which leaves all other actors to only 4% in unit share and 7% in Dollar share.

So if we assume the 125K of Borderlands on Steam is correct, then going by those greened numbers it correlates to roughly 15K Borderlands copies sold on D2D and 10K for the rest (GamersGate and whatever). Because obviously you have to substract EA's and Blizzard's marketshares because Borderlands and other 3d party games (expect their own) aren't sold there.

Btw, a big part of Blizzard's 20% maketshare is World of Warcraft.