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sales2099 said: I hope this isn't a new "strain" of PS3 fan responses when their exclusives flop.....saying its sold mostly on digital (which we can't track), essentially having no numbers to back you up and hiding behind Sony which never discloses digital sales numbers. Remember the PS2 days....you guys were actually tough then! |
This guy, as sad as his intentions are, actually brings up a good point. Not voluntarily, of course, but still important.
Digital sales are growing, retail sales are declining. This especially effects handheld games, which are harder to find in stores and often at a price point that is more comfortable for impulse buys. The waters are further muddied by the emergence of Day One digital releases, especially with PS+ discounts. With older games, PS+ is using them to generate revenue in a service scenario instead of on an individual sales basis. Most intelligent people are going to conclude that it's going to get harder and harder to compare sales data and that comparisons to older titles are going to become less valid over time.
Unfortunately, this is a good opportunity for the fanboy. They will continue their comparisons on a 1-to-1 basis even when logic says that the landscape is changing rapidly. The pathetic few who love one manufacturer but hate video-games in general will use this tactic to prove flop after flop, resorting to bad logic to discount digital sales entirely.
That pitiful little group aside, how are the rest of us going to deal with these numbers in an intelligent way? We simply don't have the data. Are we going to go the fanboy route and claim that digital sales don't count? It's not looking good, to be honest, and will probably only get worse with the launch of the PS3 and 720.
