Steam sales data 2015 (estimates)

[Chazore]

Teeqoz said:

 

I don't really find it weird at all. This is a site that's dedicated to tracking sales, and I think a lot of users here have a sort of "abnormal" (for lack of a better word) interest in these kinda numbers and metrics. It's the same reason why quite a few people here are rather interested in the Box Office I think. It's just that up until recently, we had no semi-relaible source for sales on PC, but now we do.

I see people using Steamspy quite a lot here when discussing sales really.

And also I think you underestimate the amount of people that game on PC here. Just because someone is primarily a console gamer doesn't mean they don't have a Steam account and own a fair few games. (I consider myself a "console gamer" but last year I almost only gamed on PC, and while my library isn't as astronomically large as some PC gamers' is, I do have 48 games in my Steam library).

I know this is a site for tracking sales data but I find the notion of only being into the numbers as an odd thing, especially since a few people just use the "I;m just into numebrs" as their reason and yet there is always a depper meaning to such a thing (like saying "I like moeny" but it;s clear why I like money and what I want to spend it on if you know me as a person).

Yeah I have noticed that for a while now.

It;s not that I underestimate, it's that I feel a rift in who primarily games on a PC and another who plays chess on it or a few games from 20 years ago but plays most of today's games on another system, I mean if we go with stretched definitions then I'm officially a newspaper editor ebcause I happen to own a typewriter and can use it whenever possible, I don't own an up to date model but it counts for something right?.

In the end we all have our main prefs, despite owning multiple platforms there is a definition for what we are based on what we currently game on, otherwise like before with the stretching of definitions, we're all PC gamers and yet that isn't really a true thing.

I have 234 games on Steam, practically all the games on Battle.net, 13 games over on GoG and about 10 on Origin.