okr said:
Cute try but no, that’s not the reason. PC games are sold mostly digital. To name the most obvious and famous example: The 27 million copies of Minecraft sold on PC and Mac are completely missing on VGC, the PC version would be in every year’s top 100 from 2009-2017 if VGC was able to track digital numbers. Other examples: Nier Automata PC: 0.01 million on VGC vs. 0,6 million on Steamspy (Steamspy is the only somewhat reliable source for digital sales on PC) Civ V: 1.69 million on VGC vs. 10.7 million on Steamspy Civ VI: 0.42 million on VGC vs. 2.2 million Steamspy Undertale: 0.0 on VGC vs. 2.8 million on Steamspy Stardew Valley: 0.0 on VGC vs. 3.2 million on Steamspy |
Considering a lot of the biggest IPs of this generation (Rust, H1Z1, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Battlegrounds) were PC Digital only titles originally and have a majority of their sales on PC .... yeah ... it's kind of worthless to track physical sales for PC.
