| Barozi said: |
Hey Barozi, really great thread and definitely something that needs to be examined closer as Digital Distribution gets bigger.
However I thought I would warn you that it is best not to use gamasutras xbla information. It is so inaccurate as to be totally useless. I remember their 2011 analysis was truly terrible. Through simple extrapolation using offcial MS sales ranking it was easy to calculate that some of their margins of error were over 100% for some games.
They had listed Uno as around 200k sold in 2011 but through comparing it with officially released rankings and other games leaderboards it was actually below 90k. Likewise I think they had ilomilo as about 50% overtracked and so forth. Basically the system of leaderboard numbers = sales that they use doesn't work in the slightest, and is so far off as to be useless.
A big thing is that it's not only couch co-op that affects it but multiple gamertags on a single 360. Buying an arcade game once, but then playing it with 2 or 3 different tags on the same system = 2-3 entries on the leaderboard for one sale.
