| JackHandy said: You interpreted it perfectly! Well done! lol Digital storefronts, BC, and remasters mean games never go away. They span two, sometimes three or more generations, whereas older games were usually confined to a five-year run. This entirely shifts the goals posts, and it has made sales records more confusing (fudged). At least imo. And that's not even getting into concurrent players, or how many times a game has been played. If you try to parse that in... yeesh. |
Older games also get released/remastered on digital storefronts and they would benefit with BC too.
Although I don't see how this would fudge sales numbers to a significant degree. Just because older games re - release for multiple generations doesn't mean they will sell anywhere close to the original. GTA V is the obvious outlier. Remakes like TLOU Part I and Ocarina of Time are other obvious outliers. But sales charts wouldn't count them as the same SKU anyways. People counting all the versions of say FF7 (PS1, PSN rerelease, PS4 remaster, etc) as one version is an entirely different story, and usually only done for enthusiast forums like this.
