Orange box breaks a million on 360? 1.5 on 360/ps3? (valve interview)

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Vertigo-X on 22 February 2008

Where are they getting the digitally distributed numbers from? I haven't seen them anywhere...

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Neos on 22 February 2008

Machina-AX said:

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1 mil on x360, seems in line with us really, of course they are talking about shipped

VGChartz has it at 500,000 sold to consumers and he's saying just over 1 million shipped to retailers. Is 500,000 sat in retailers normal for a game? It sounds really high to me, but I dunno, how many copies of a newish game like this would you expect to be sat on the shelves?

Same question for the PS3's 80,000 sold v 'a few hundred thousand' shipped.

Or perhaps another explanation is he's just making the numbers up and being intentionally vague so as to avoid being pinned down on the numbers *shrugs*

so 660.000 equals 500.000? =P

340.000 copies WW of a game on shelves seem reasonable to me, especially x360 games

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John_Doe on 22 February 2008

and ps3 version? 400-500.000 shipped and 80.000 sold? no mind...

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Ickalanda on 22 February 2008

Vertigo-X said:
Where are they getting the digitally distributed numbers from? I haven't seen them anywhere...

Valve distributes the game digitally themselves so they have access to all of that data, they rarely release it though.

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BottledSpringWater on 22 February 2008

I really like Steam.
Ever since the Steam community feature thing (You know when you press Shift + Tab? I don't know what it's called.) I've really been interested in it.

Some videos they can distribute through Steam would be the Team Fortress 2 videos, the same ones as XBLM.

Oh and BTW.
I didn't believe that one guy (forgot his name) who said Germany had big PC sales. Guess I'm wrong. |:(

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Sqrl on 22 February 2008

goldenpp72 said:
the graphics would get tarded up, not sure why they should bother.. Would probably be too big for wii ware anyways.

Well, he didn't specify if it was based on NPD data or just publishers shipment data its a bit hard to say one way or the other. The only part they really mention NPD is specifically in reference to PC sales and even then it's later in the article.

Could there be a problem? Sure. Is there for sure a problem? No. But its definitely something worth looking into a bit more.

I have to say its nice to see folks from GAF hitting on the software now. It used to be the hardware they complained about but I've noticed they don't really bother with that any more. The slow and begrudging acceptance of hardware numbers is well on its way~

PS - I don't disagree at all that the software data is frequently inconsistent. But I also think its getting better every month and its only a matter of time before the issues are worked out. And every time someone points out a valid problem it helps, so on that note your effort is appreciated =)