| JEMC said: ^With most PC games sales coming from digital platforms (Steam, Origin, UPlay, GMG, GOG, etc) I doubt we'll ever be able to track those sales without their help. And they won't help. Anyway, a couple days ago I complained about the lack of news. I won't make that mistake again. [...] |
True, but knowing that physical sales are just the point of the iceberg (except for particularly well priced physical collections or rich collector editions filled with maps, old style complete paper manuals and gadgets), we can get at least a vague idea, and when Steam and others release their numbers, we can get a more precise idea and try some rough estimates for other titles, based on similar ones that we have more infos about. Not very precise, but better than nothing...
About news, sometimes it looks like they come slow and scarce, then suddenly... About this, an updated VGC DB, with the possibility of adding new titles to users wishlists and collections fully restored, could help a little, when it worked I used that feature quite often both to track my existing backlog and to quickly add interesting new titles to my wishlist, sometimes getting inspiration from other users collections and lists, not just from news, reviews and forum posts.
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