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Viper1 said: Bottom of the digital chart is 870 units. That is incredibly small for even indie games. To say nothing of Virtual Console type games or other big digital only releases. Ask him how Famitsu obtains their digital data too. |
No, it's not. You're misunderstanding the data. Let me explain it as best I can.
Famitsu releases a top 30 every month that includes physical and digital sales. The chart is ordered by these combined sales, so to enter the chart a game needs whatever the bottom limit is (usually around 15k or so) in either pure physical sales; pure digital sales or a combination of physical and digital sales.
I've chosen to order the charts by digital sales only because that's what this information is about. I include the extra physical sales too just for completion. I've always provided the link to the original post next to the month so you can look up the whole chart.
I'd say that plenty of digital-only Virtual Console titles wouldn't even reach close to that figure per month
As a final comparison for what I was saying, let me use the example of sales for the month of October (because it's easiest for me to dig up, since Noctis did all the chart). The period Famitsu covers for this is:
Week 1; Week 2; Week 3; Week 4.
Famitsu counts download cards as physical sales. If you add up any of the sales from a game for the weeks they charted in Famitsu during this period, you'll get a total which equals the physical figure from the information I've been providing. So for example, Pokemon's total is:
2,953,059
Which is the same as the total it posted for 3 of those 4 weeks I linked, which is the tracking figures.
The digital downloads are extra on top of that. If they were download cards, then we'd be counting those sales twice and there would be absolutely no point in them releasing the information.
Regarding how Famitsu track these numbers: I don't think they've ever explained their methodology. So you're welcome to completely disregard this information if you wish and ignore this thread from now on. I happen to quite like that there is some digital information compared to the nothing that we've had before, so quite like posting this every month which is why I'm keeping up this thread.
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