Current state of the website: an honest opinion

[Zappykins]

Ka-pi96 said:

Zappykins said:
Well, and we do not track digital sales. They only track physical - which are probably still relevant, but not as much as people think they are. Do they even make of note of them? Nope, they report physical sales as if it's the be and end all of sales.

Note: I don't know anyone in my real circle that has bought a physical game for 8th gen.

Music had not a gold record by September of last year. Physical sales are pretty much gone. Gaming isn't that far behind. We really need a way to track digital sales, or we are just 'VGChartz for the last century.'

Physical sales are still stronger than you think. Here in the UK there are over 8 times as many physical sales than digital for consoles and I don't personally know anyone who has bought a single digital game (except Dying Light because it released a month earlier digitally, yet still topped the physical charts when it released).

'SuperData estimates that the console digital games market was worth £118m in the UK last year, by contrast, GfK Chart-Track reports that UK boxed console games sales was worth £999m in 2014.'
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/uk-pc-games-market-hits-771m/0147770

So the article had PC Game Sales of physical as only 5% of physical and dropped 30% over the previous year, and with higher game prices.  That's an enormous trend.

Yet says it estimates the extreme reverse on conoles?  That seems like a massive leap in logic.  Maybe that do that in the UK but it stills seems odd.  Do they still buy new Records there?  How about a gramaphone?

Either way, in a few years, I think it's pretty clear, except on the WiiU due to storage space, the overwhelming majority of game sales will be digtial.  Just look at how much more Minecraft on the Xbox 360 sold digitally then physically.  I even bought some digital games, like World of Goo, digitaly on my Wii.

To stay relevant VGChartz needs to find a way to track digial sales.