Digital sales in UK to be traced !

RenCutypoison

Currently Offline

17,369

4358 posts since 03/02/13

Recent Badges:

8 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 8 years.
1st Birthday Has been a VGChartz member for over 1 year.
Pata 100 wall post comments made on gamrConnect.
So You Came Back For More, Huh? Logged in a second time.
Happy Birthday Logged in on your birthday.
Mighty Heart Logged in on Valentine's Day.

Currently Playing:

League of Legends (PC)

RenCutypoison on 28 May 2013

Ukie is trying to start collecting digital sales data for UK :

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/193127/UKIE_wants_your_video_game_sales_data.php

So, more tracability next gen ?

maximrace

Currently Offline

7,383

1369 posts since 20/11/10

Recent Badges:

Littlest Genocide 1,000 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
9 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 9 years.
2 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 2 years.
Open For Business Earned 10 badges.
A Badge Within A Badge Earned 20 badges.
6 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 6 years.

maximrace on 28 May 2013

Would be a start

TripleMMM

Currently Offline

7,420

2272 posts since 25/03/09

Recent Badges:

9 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 9 years.
Littlest Genocide 1,000 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
Completed Persona 100% completed profile.
Mirror Image Awarded for uploading an avatar.
Site Veteran Has been a VGChartz member for over 5 years.
The Nuts & Bolts Add a total of 25 games to your collection.

TripleMMM on 28 May 2013

Finally, something tangible!

And proud member of the Mega Mario Movement!

crissindahouse

Currently Offline

57,833

13071 posts since 18/10/07

Recent Badges:

Killer Scorpion Earned 60 badges.
16 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 16 years.
Man or Robot? Managed to avoid being banned for 10 years.
Spreading the Disease Score a total of 50 games in your collection.
Quite a Collection of Parts Add a total of 250 games to your collection.
2 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 2 years.

Currently Playing:

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (PC)
The Last of Us (PS3)
Batman: Arkham City (PC)
Fez (XBL)

crissindahouse on 28 May 2013

would be really awesome! but i would be more interested to see that for germany because pc gaming is big here and a lot of it is digital with steam and so on...

RenCutypoison

Currently Offline

17,369

4358 posts since 03/02/13

Recent Badges:

It's a Start Bank a Total of 2,000 VG$.
Hit And Run 15 comments posted on VGChartz news articles.
4 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 4 years.
One Piece at a Time Add your first game to your collection.
9 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 9 years.
So You Came Back For More, Huh? Logged in a second time.

Currently Playing:

League of Legends (PC)

RenCutypoison on 28 May 2013

crissindahouse said:
would be really awesome! but i would be more interested to see that for germany because pc gaming is big here and a lot of it is digital with steam and so on...

Nothern Europe might have peculiars numbers too.

One thing, BTW, won't it become necessary to dissociate free to play and classic business model ?

krafty89

Currently Offline

2,318

526 posts since 18/12/11

Recent Badges:

Site Veteran Has been a VGChartz member for over 5 years.
Congratulations on Pressing Start! Score your first game in your collection.
Watch Your Back! Received 10,000 profile views.
One Piece at a Time Add your first game to your collection.
10 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 10 years.
50 in One Add a total of 50 games to your collection.

Currently Playing:

inFAMOUS 2 (PS3)
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (PS3)
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition (PSN)

krafty89 on 28 May 2013

Awesome sauce

PSP Lifetime more than PSV+3DS Lifetime.

bananaking21

Currently Offline

122,485

23078 posts since 05/02/12

Recent Badges:

A Free Man Managed to avoid being banned for 2 years.
Congratulations on Pressing Start! Score your first game in your collection.
Open For Business Earned 10 badges.
11 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 11 years.
Making Friends 10 friends on gamrConnect.
10 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 10 years.

Currently Playing:

The Last of Us (PS3)
Far Cry 3 (PC)
God of War: Ascension (PS3)

bananaking21 on 28 May 2013

how will they manage to do so?

sniper989

Banned

1,527

399 posts since 03/09/12

Recent Badges:

Leaving Limbo 100 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
One Piece at a Time Add your first game to your collection.
Hit And Run 15 comments posted on VGChartz news articles.
Watch Your Back! Received 10,000 profile views.
Congratulations on Pressing Start! Score your first game in your collection.

Currently Playing:

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (PSV)

sniper989 on 28 May 2013

only PC games right now

outlawauron

Currently Offline

131,389

34170 posts since 18/04/07

Recent Badges:

You're Popular... Author of at least 5 gamrConnect threads that has received over 1,000 replies.
Open For Business Earned 10 badges.
Careful Now Rejected or approved 50 GameDB jobs.
11 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 11 years.
Littlest Genocide 1,000 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
Making Progress Earned 50,000 gamrPoints

Currently Playing:

Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii)
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (PC)
Suikoden III (PS2)
Record of Agarest War (X360)

outlawauron on 28 May 2013

Very ambitious. I do hope they can get more groups on board. More data is good data.

"We'll toss the dice however they fall,
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall,
Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."

Check out MyAnimeList and my Game Collection. Owner of the 5 millionth post.

Barozi

Currently Offline

96,799

22061 posts since 18/03/08

Recent Badges:

Hit And Run 15 comments posted on VGChartz news articles.
Watch Your Back! Received 10,000 profile views.
The Nuts & Bolts Add a total of 25 games to your collection.
Ride Into the Sunset Managed to avoid being banned for 3 months.
One Small Step 10 box arts added to the VGChartz database.
Quite a Collection of Parts Add a total of 250 games to your collection.

Barozi on 28 May 2013

crissindahouse said:
would be really awesome! but i would be more interested to see that for germany because pc gaming is big here and a lot of it is digital with steam and so on...

Actually outside of Steam deals and huge sellers (Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 etc.) don't expect much to change on a weekly scale.

http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/datentraeger-und-downloads/alle-plattformen-im-vergleich.html

Most PC sales come from budget priced games and indie games.
A top seller list would become meaningless quickly when there's one HumbleBundle on sale for example and at the same time a PC version of a popular multiplat game is released but only found on place #6.
So the future top seller list would need to be sorted by revenue and then the HB games wouldn't appear either (just as they don't appear right now).

Furthermore:
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/datentraeger-und-downloads/distribution.html

38% of all games in Germany are sold digitally, but they only represent 11% of the revenue.

Another thing:
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/die-deutsche-gamesbranche-2012.html

1.5bn Euro revenue from games, 11% of them are digital, so 165m Euro revenue.
PC gaming brought it 464m Euro revenue, so AT BEST 36% of all PC gaming revenue is from digital sales.

Existing User Log In

New User Registration

Forums - Gaming - Digital sales in UK to be traced !

Tagged games:

Digital Partner (WS)

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Recent Badges:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

"We'll toss the dice however they fall,
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall,
Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."

Check out MyAnimeList and my Game Collection. Owner of the 5 millionth post.

Recent Badges:

Existing User Log In

New User Registration

Forums - Gaming - Digital sales in UK to be traced !

Tagged games:

Digital Partner (WS)

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Recent Badges:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

Recent Badges:

Currently Playing:

"We'll toss the dice however they fall,And snuggle the girls be they short or tall,Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."

Check out MyAnimeList and my Game Collection. Owner of the 5 millionth post.

Recent Badges:

"We'll toss the dice however they fall,
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall,
Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."