USA 31st October is up

[binary solo]

Machina said:

binary solo said:

So why are you removing it? I would think we would like to have sales of these cards for digital only games included in the charts, only perhaps an * could be put along side games that are digital only and the number only pertains to sales of game specific download cards.

Also, will you be adjusting the NDC down a tad since NPD "insiders" are saying NDC (incl bundles) is <300K for Oct? So VGC is at least 13% over tracked compared to NPD.

Because although we could produce those numbers it's not something we've talked about pursuing yet. If we're going to do it then we need to apply to evenly to all games that are sold this way, not just one title.

But yes I had thought about adding a separate physical and digital estimate for each game. Two points though - 1) Not sure if we have enough data to do that reliably, and 2) Our game database is a mess and would need overhauling first.



I personally value NPD data (and indeed any sales tracker - the more data the better, and if we're open to using it - which I think we should be - then we can build a really comprehensive sales database) so once I have full adjustment powers reliable leaks will prompt adjustments if we're either a fair way out or it backs up a trend that I'd been seeing in the numbers but didn't have the confidence to risk going with at the time (cautious guy that I am by nature).

Uncharted I'm 95% sure we overtracked the first week but have been slightly undertracking every week since launch. The raw data for the bundle figures is really high. We'll probably adjust the first week down and subsequent weeks up. Haven't seen the data for the next US week yet but I expect it's gone up a lot.

Regarding Halo the initial estimate was slightly below 900. I expect the NPD leak is reliable. If you go back and look at our pre-order chart you'll notice that pre-orders remained flat and it ended up at 708k - a very low figure for mainline Halo but in-line with NPD and our final figure.

Interesting. Perhaps as an initial step into the digital reporting arena an occasional article could be written about what games VGC has been tracking digitally and where their sales are at. And what method of digital transactions are and aren't able to be tracked / estimated.

@OP UK chart is up now, perhaps that could be added to the OP.

Speaking of UK. PS4 is coming damned close to being the top selling 8th gen hardware INCLUDING handhelds. probably won't happen this year, but next yea for sure, and I wonder if it will happen before NX releases (assuming NX will be the 9th gen hardware for Nintendo that covers both handheld and home console spaces)

PS4	18,793	(+12%)	2,367,569
3DS	6,948	(-6%)	2,988,429

I wouldn't be surprised if Xb one eventually overtakes 3DS as well.