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lucidium on 20 February 2014
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JayWood2010 said:
lucidium said:
JayWood2010 said:


http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-02-npd-preparing-to-track-digital-sales-this-year

Bolded part, take for example a developer releases a game worldwide and its published in a different region by a publisher that isnt on board with the provision of digital sales to NDP, what you would end up with is inaccurate worldwide results.

It will help, sure, but it will bring its own fair share of inaccuracies along with it.

Will they be more accurate or less accurate with digital?  Take a 3DS game like Pokemon that is possibly missing 1m+ from digital for instance.  

VGC is estimates, they arent expected to be exact but the more they can track the better. Plus this is one of the most anticipated features on VGC, though doubtful we will ever see it.

True, it would be nice is they separated things (perhaps they will be doing, ive not been keeping track), for example retail, digital and combined. then in specific game pages report the numbers given for each region/publisher of the game so if a number doesnt look quite right a quick check can reveal why.