| Lostplanet22 said: You guys should read the article and especially details. The numbers are higher on the leaderboards thanks to the multiplayer...If you buy a XBLA game on X360 and your have a brother he can play the game aswell on your X360 with his account and that makes the numbers higher on the leaderboards then the real sales.. |
I did read it. Still shows the figures are utterly useless though. So BG+E has 125k of sales according to them (which keep in mind could be more than actual sales anyway). While ilomilo sold less than it yet they have it at 144k..... so in actuality they have ilomilo at least 20k overtracked. An error of at least 14%.
Well that kinda makes the figures even out as a rough guide doesn't it? I mean bastion and Limbo are better examples. We know bastion sold more yet it is listed as 200k while Limbo is listed as 309k..... So basically Limbo is at the very least 109k overtracked. Or more than 33%.
Or if we want to take it even deeper then we can use multiple games as comparison points. So BG+E is listed as 125k yet it sold less than case zero at 90k. However we also know that ilomilo sold less than BG+E so ilomilo is actually below 90k! Well over 50k overtracked.
Or even better Uno is listed as 197k. Yet from Microsoft's official tables it sold less than BG+E. So knowing that BG+E sold less than Case Zero's 90k we know that Uno actually sold considerably less than 90k. Thus for 2011 its sales figures are overtracked by at least 107k, over 100% off.
My point is that using leaderboards as an indication of sales is just insane. As you can see it gives errors of over 100%. You may as well just throw a dart at a list of numbers and see what it hits.
