| ethomaz said: If Amazon had big numbers that pushed the sales to 100k for example... if it sold 50k in previous month accross all retails... it will sell close to 150k this month... big numbers overall. You can't disprove the OP. Amazon is yet accurate with the ranking places for hardware... and after you pushed software I realise it is for software too. |
Your numbers are FAR to optimistic, and your belief on how improtant a player Amazon is in the market is just outright wrong.
250,000 / 3 = $~83,300 (Despite the fact you'd expect sales to be front loaded.)
So for an average 50K sales.
So you think for the 19.99 (Is what it started at) the game sold for. They made $1.70 per copy sold. Despite digital supposidly being better for developers then retial.
Well actually less since that's revenue shared with 360, and PS3.
Also, you think that Amazon can TRIPLE the sales of a game. Despite the fact that Valve is by far the strongest market force in digital, and Amazon's digital market is known to be fairly insignficant. (Hence why expansions into england focus on how much stronger a videogame retailer they are there.)
If I wanted to take it to the most absurb extreme I would of simply used Thief Gold. Which was actually Free in Feburary if you entered a contest. Even so, despite being Free I doubt it was downloaded nearly 1 Million times required to surpass PS4.
Different stores have different percentages of the market, right down to specific consoles. The reason why the number seem to work out right now hardware wise is because it's the start of the generation.
With consoles, it's a lot easier to get "lucky", as there has been a fairly big gap... and your comparing a whole two.
One final one to illustrate, and if you don't get it at this point... fine.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/13/february-npd-ps4-sells-more-xbox-one-leads-in-dollar-amount/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2014-02/videogames/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_bsar#1
Xbone 250K, Bravely Default 200K. Bravely Default ahead in Amazon Rankings.
360 GTA > PS3 GTA in NPD. PS3 GTA> 360 GTA in Amazon.
Minecraft 360> Bravely Default in NPD. In Amazon. Bravley Default 6, Minecraft 25... and behind a couple other games that didn't chart in the top 10. Like FFX Remastered, Tomb Raider. (Also Battlefield 3. Which is digital download.)
You can't blindly trust one websites top sellers list for information.
