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Forums - Sales - Now Enterbrain (Famitsu) Tracks Download Sales

jarrod on 22 February 2010

Link!

Media Create, Enterbrain and ASCII Media Works give us a pretty complete picture of the retail sales scene. But what about sales of download games?

Enterbrain, publisher of the Famitsu line of magazines, appears to have a means of tracking download game sales. Earlier this month, the company announced plans to begin a data service that tracks online game sales. The service will kick off in the Spring and will initially track sales through Wii Shopping Channel, DSi Shop, PlayStation Store, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Apple's App Store.

Current retail sales services base their tallies off sales information provided by partner retailers. Entebrain's new service will be based off purchase data from 300,000 gamers.

Enterbrain will offer the weekly and monthly sales data to members of its f-ism ("Famitsu Intelligence Strategic Marketing") marketing service as an option costing around ¥200,000 per month.

According to Enterbrain this is the first domestic download sales data service.



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johnsobas on 22 February 2010

yeah i'm not paying $2000 to see them. Are they gonna release some public numbers too?



currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X

Jin_Shihouin on 22 February 2010

It's interesting.

Somebody who'll get the numbers will probably post them in some forum or 2ch.
Same with Oricon (Music Charts) subscribers.



Looking forward to: FF Versus XIII / LBP2 / The Last Guardian / Yakuza 4 / ICO Collection

Porcupine_I on 22 February 2010
Jin_Shihouin said:
It's interesting.

Somebody who'll get the numbers will probably post them in some forum or 2ch.
Same with Oricon (Music Charts) subscribers.

and someone who doesn't get the numbers will pull some out of his a** and still post them on some forum



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’