Ethomaz's Dismantling the Myths: Amazon.com's Best Sellers is Not Accurate to the Predict Overall Hardware Sales in US (Checking: Accuracy with Software)

[Kasz216]

ethomaz said:

Kasz216 said:

Hell, looking at Janurary's 2014 numbers you posted.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2014-01/videogames/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_bsar


A Brothers Tale for Windows is sitting at 12.


I think that says it all.

 

Online Game Code. 

You knon NPD didn't track digital. 

Which is fairly irrelevent.

A Brothers Tale is a indy PC game... released in September.

 No way did it outsell most of the big physical hardware games in January, unless the PC market is WAY bigger then anyone thinks.

In which case, you'd likely see other games up there like Payday.  

Since between Septmeber and December when the game was released it made about 250,000K for the company.  Which was outproduced by Payday.  A really really old game.    

http://www.starbreeze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-02-27-Press-release-Half-Year-Report-July-1-December-31-2013.pdf

It would had to have hit a HUGE popularity swing in January to even remotely match up.

 

 

Hardware and Software are calculated the same, and therefore a problem with one SHOULD be a problem with the other.  I've actually done this before so I know how it works.