thetonestarr said:
RaptorChrist said:
I don't disagree that probably every title within the mini-console had it's share of buyers that wouldn't have otherwise purchased the item without said game, but that's not quantifiable. If it was, it could make for interesting data, as I'd really be interested in seeing how many people bought the SNES Classic for Star Fox 2, among other things.
But the mini console is a separate product sold in a separate time to a separate audience. And what Tetris sales do you mean? If I owned the Tetris brand, I would want to include all plug 'n play devices as well to the sales figure. It depends on what the metric is used for.
In my opinion, sales data would be tampered if we counted each SNES Classic sale as a separate sale for each individual game within the mini-console, as well as a sale for the SNES as well. And even if you tried to slice it up into fractions of a sale, that just makes a mess of things, and overall makes the data that's already been compiled less meaningful. I'm sure there were more SNES Classics sold than many of the games on it's roster, so adding those sales numbers in would affect things drastically.
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It was recently reported that Minecraft has become the best-selling game of all time, across all releases, surpassing all forms of Tetris at something like 170m.
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I'm sure it was a great report.
Edit: Sorry, I just didn't know what else to say. Most of the people on VGChartz like to use sales data as a way of comparing console game sales. There is no official sales number method. If you want to treat them as separate but related (which I'm not even sure what that means) then you can do that. I just don't want to see all of the historical sales figures gone.
Last edited by RaptorChrist - on 04 June 2019
