The significance of VGChartz in the wake of digital downloads

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Shinobi-san said:

Smeags said:

yo_john117 said:
I'm sure they will eventually find a way to track Digital Sales of games.

They've done it before. Remember the WiiWare and XBL Arcade charts back in the day? I loved those features.

But yes, I'm sure Brett is looking towards the future and what that means for VGChartz. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next. ^_^

WE use to track WiiWare and XBl arcade sales??? Must have been before my time  

Howd they use to do that though :?

Two examples:
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/3416/channel-surfing-virtual-consolewiiware-sales-chart-march-2009/
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/2957/xbla-sales-chart-2109-2709/

DKII put together the worldwide Wiiware charts, benkenobi the xbla analysis. Two of the more famous members of the early days, you probably remember them.

DKII is Keith Jackson, benkenobi is Benjamin Schlichter, today they run their own sales analysis company: http://fadellc.com/About%20Us.html

I contributed among others to Keith's Wiiware charts, for more than a year I checked the weekly German Wiiware data and forwarded them to TWRoO who sent all the European data to DKII.