| Viper1 said: Ok, I get the monthly thing better now. Thanks. However, those are still incredibly low numbers for digital sales. As for the separation of the 2 sales criteria for those monthly, it could simply be saying that here is the total and of that total, this portion is download cards. It doesn't have to mean in addition too. Here is an interesting exercise to try. Add up a months total for 1 game (like Pokemon) from Famitsu and Media Create. Subtract the difference. Then compare that number to the digital sales from Famitsu. I bet they are always pretty damn close. We say the reason Famitsu is always higher than MC is because of the download cards. So why not compare their difference with these digital sales to see how close that disparity is. It the digital sales are truly digital sales, there would be practically no correlation at all. I did read something from Hiska a moment ago. He said Famitsu uses a website to poll the data from 10,000 users per console. First off, what website? We should be able to go to ourselves and see. Secondly, how do you possibly limit the data to 10,000 polled users per console? How would you possibly know? What prevents double voting? Too many questions. |
Regarding your exercise - well, why not do exactly that?
Media Create Pokemon sales for October: 2,596,123
Famitsu Pokemon sales for October: 2,953,059
Famitsu digital Pokemon sales for October: 33,911
Now, seems to me like a pretty clear-cut case of one tracker including download cards and one tracker not. A gap of 300k+
Of course, the bigger the game sells the more chance there is for disagreement between them, but still. Famitsu tracks download cards. I thought that was well known by now.
You could try it with a load of other games if you're doubting the data to try and prove the point, but I'm quite happy with the belief that Famitsu are tracking download cards while Media Create aren't (I'm sure if you dug around in past Japan sales threads enough you'd probably find a post to that effect).
I do understand why you'd question the information, it's just a little frustrating because since this data begun being released it was always under the knowledge that they were pure digital sales and now you're questioning that, which is okay, but it would take more digging than I'm willing to do to show you the information which says that it is. I've tried to prove it by providing a counter-point for every question you raise but then you just come up with more questions :P
And regarding their methodology - like I said, I have no idea. Ask Hiska. I'm happy enough with what they're providing not to particularly care how they do it for the time being. I realise it's not a 100% accurate representation. It's good enough that it's at least an attempt at digital sales for me.
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