Consoles will get digital charts soon

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luiaots said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

luiaots said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

MrT-Tar said:
I came in here hoping for VC numbers...

Virtual Console? Nintendo has adviced their developers (and even third parties) to keep their download numbers secret. So, sadly there's probably zero chance we'll see any of those in the near future. 

 

Edit, found the source: http://www.icongames.com/nintendo-digital-sales-data-secrecy/

I wonder why they do that and still provide total number of hours played and numbers of hours played by each person on average.... A little math and you get a good estimate of how much they sold. Also, this is more accurate with VC and Wiiware titles since you can assume that since you need the internet to download them, then everyones(almost) numbers would be accounted for.

Wait, what? Are you connected to the internet while playing VC/Wiiware games, or does the stored gameplay history on the Wii get send in to Nintendo?

If the latter is the case, then I'm pretty sure there was an option available about whether the user wanted Nintendo to receive their gameplay data or not, in which case the total games sold estimation would be very insufficient.

Well I guess you could turn off the internet if you wanted to, but it could be connected if  you have wiiconnect 24 or whatever that is service is called. You might right that you could turn off giving info to nintendo though, I dont remember since I did it years ago. No matter what, It would still give you a minimum amount of games sold wouldnt it?

Yeah, I suppose that's good enough for a start.