| Kerotan said: Came across this ages ago but only signed up recently so never got to say it. You can look that numbers up but a few months back Minecraft announced how many digital copies they'd sold on the PS3 store. It sounded like a lot so I went onto the site and checked the number of ratings it had. It worked out that for every 50 people that bought it (roughly) 1 of them rated it. This is only 1 game but if you matched up officail numbers for known games and checked their ratings I'm sure we could find a god average. The likes of infamous second son have 10k ratings on the store so would it make sense if that game had 500k downloads? Anyway this IMO is our best way to estimate digital sales for a game. Destiny PS4 has around 6k ratings I think so that prob has a good 300k digital copies sold. |
That's a good way, but don't forget that there are different PSN store regions with different ratings as well. I don't expect the ratio to be 50:1 for every game, we had a thread about this a few years ago and theorized that it could be around 20:1, obviously during the ps360 gen downloading entire games wasn't really popular as it is now so a lot of older stuff have low ratings.
But then again, some big publishers said retail to digital sales ratio is around 90:10 on new consoles.
