| outlawauron said: Games do sell consistently over time. It just is dependent on stock to be reshipped. W101 likely hasn't had a new copy printed in 12 months. It should be double digits to selling nothing very soon. |
Yes, they probably do, but except for huge hits it stops at some point, like once retailers do a clearance sale and stop stocking the game or when all the copies are gone and the publisher decides not to print another run. But VGChartz assumes about 100 new copies sold per week in the US for any old game, including those that have gone out of print years ago like Afrika or Cross Edge. And since both of those games go for ~$200 sealed nowadays, I really doubt they're actually seeing copies of those moved anywhere. So when they do see a game shift a copy or two, it seems like they say, "Oh, it must have sold 500 that week, then." I don't know how to otherwise explain how out of whack some of these games' sales get over time.
