| Viper1 said:
No, I mean digital games that don't have a download card presence. Only available digitally. Minecraft and Rain have download cards. Indie titles? Virtual Consoles titles? See my point? |
Two possible reasons:
- Maybe they're only counting "full" price games, or at least games that aren't costing a few hundred Yen on the eShop/PSN.
- The games still need to sell over the lower threshold to appear on the bottom end of the chart. Which means they have to sell more digitally than all other games on the chart sell digitally + physically. Might not be a particularly large number, but indie games don't have a particularly large presence in Japan.
In addition: Have Minecraft and Rain had download card releases? Can't see Rain on amazon.jp or Play-Asia, for example. I know Rain has had a physical release, and that's counted separately.
Anyway, I've sent Hiska a message so hopefully he'll show up eventually to clarify this, since he's the one buying the issues of Famitsu every month and translating the data so he'll know what it's for.
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