"Our data demonstrates that 84 per cent of sales can be predicted by all clicks during the 10 month launch cycle," it reported.

"We used the regression coefficient from our analysis to create a predictive model and found that if a game accrues 250,000 clicks in the 10 months around launch, it will likely sell between 2 and 4 million units in the first four months after release."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-09-25-google-searches-can-predict-84-percent-of-game-sales

Discuss.

Well... that's quite an interesting topic!

@OP I think you should take out the colon in between Google and Searches, it would make more sense.

so does that mean all the bayonetta 2 searches in the last week or two will result in 10million sales?

What this means: Start spam searching for your favorite titles in order to increase their sales performance.

And don't search for titles you don't like, you'll be giving them more sales!

http://bit.ly/QSXMMD

10 million confirmed!

What if my search makes me not want the game even more and all search's result in less sales.