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method114 on 06 November 2014
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jlmurph2 said:
method114 said:
jlmurph2 said:

Physical is still the biggest part of the console industry. Until that shifts over, we'll continue to use NPD, Amazon and VGC as references.

Yea and that's fine I see no issue with it. It's just at this point it's nothing but assumptions really. Were missing to much data now at this point to really do anything but make assumptions.


But exactly how farfetched is the assumption "more retail sales = more digital sales"?

That's just it we don't know there is know and there is no way to know unless the company comes right out and says it. In fact I think one company (EA or activaition can't remember) said that digital sales were nearly 50% of their game sales. 

I guess the best way to know is to find out what a company says a game sold to it's investors and then compare that to what we know were the physical sales and see how far off vgchartz is each and every time. Then we can use that data and build a formula so we can have a better guess as to what games are actually doing. Right now though it's just complete guess.

While yes more retail sales = more digital sales we don't know how much more. Is it just barely more, maybe barely anyone decided to go digital for that game. Maybe it's nearly double, maybe it's triple. 

Basically my point is comparing game sales is really just pointless cause we have no idea how many people are going digital and for how many games. For instance I was never going to go digital this gen, then I switched in the middle sold all my physical and went digital but some games I know are not keeper so I buy physical and sell them. 

Feel free to talk about games and sales and speculate and all that but just understand your figures could far off and being impressed by any sales data isn't really a good idea unless it includes digital. Espically preorders which don't even matter anymore preodering has become very pointless.