Digital sales in UK to be traced !

[Barozi]

crissindahouse said:

Barozi said:

Actually outside of Steam deals and huge sellers (Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 etc.) don't expect much to change on a weekly scale.

http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/datentraeger-und-downloads/alle-plattformen-im-vergleich.html

Most PC sales come from budget priced games and indie games.
A top seller list would become meaningless quickly when there's one HumbleBundle on sale for example and at the same time a PC version of a popular multiplat game is released but only found on place #6.
So the future top seller list would need to be sorted by revenue and then the HB games wouldn't appear either (just as they don't appear right now).

Furthermore:
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/datentraeger-und-downloads/distribution.html

38% of all games in Germany are sold digitally, but they only represent 11% of the revenue.

Another thing:
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/die-deutsche-gamesbranche-2012.html

1.5bn Euro revenue from games, 11% of them are digital, so 165m Euro revenue.
PC gaming brought it 464m Euro revenue, so AT BEST 36% of all PC gaming revenue is from digital sales.

but the next years will see a huge increase for digital. the last years already show that. maybe not that important now but in some years, more people will buy digital and less retailers will sell pc games which makes it even harder to buy a retail copy.

It will rise, but the question is by how much over the next few years.

http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/datentraeger-und-downloads/downloads-umsaetze-in.html

Seems like a huge jump from 2011 to 2012, but when you remember that that was the period where Vita and WiiU released and where 3DS got the price cut, which all had a bigger shift to digital than DS, PSP and Wii, it remains to be seen how much of the jump was actually due to the PC.