Media Create, Enterbrain and ASCII Media Works give us a pretty complete picture of the retail sales scene. But what about sales of download games?
Enterbrain, publisher of the Famitsu line of magazines, appears to have a means of tracking download game sales. Earlier this month, the company announced plans to begin a data service that tracks online game sales. The service will kick off in the Spring and will initially track sales through Wii Shopping Channel, DSi Shop, PlayStation Store, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Apple's App Store.
Current retail sales services base their tallies off sales information provided by partner retailers. Entebrain's new service will be based off purchase data from 300,000 gamers.
Enterbrain will offer the weekly and monthly sales data to members of its f-ism ("Famitsu Intelligence Strategic Marketing") marketing service as an option costing around ¥200,000 per month.
According to Enterbrain this is the first domestic download sales data service.
