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Forums - Sales - Gfk acquires Chart-Track

Saiyar on 07 July 2008

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/gfk-acquires-chart-track

Gfk now owns 55% of Chart-track. Might not be too long before we see some sort of unified EU chart from them.



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lombard2578 on 07 July 2008

Bad news. When we see how it is hard to obtain gfk data, now i think it could be hard to obtain chart-track data, what was easy before.



kamil on 07 July 2008

Hopefully it won't change chart-track public data release scheldue.



Diomedes1976 on 07 July 2008

I hope Chart Track keeps revealing the sales numbers weekly.Although we dont need to dramatize ,as GFk does the same for the other countries for software and neither of them gives hardware numbers weekly.



lombard2578 on 07 July 2008
Diomedes1976 said:
I hope Chart Track keeps revealing the sales numbers weekly.Although we dont need to dramatize ,as GFk does the same for the other countries for software and neither of them gives hardware numbers weekly.

 

Ok, so give me please the top 10 software of Spain for the week 24 and the week 22 of 2008.



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llewdebkram on 07 July 2008

Not long now before ioi sells out for a huge wad of cash!!



Seneque on 07 July 2008

I'm not particularly pleased either.
Now, Gfk is more a conglomerate of country-specific trackers than a unified global-one. So, normally, Chart-Track should keep its specificities and its policy should remain intact. (At least, I hope).



Neos on 07 July 2008

I hope Gfk doesn't get too much into chart-track and leave them independent as a chart releasing company, otherwise it's bye-bye to our weekly top 40 =(



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celine on 07 July 2008

Unexpected :-|



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Diomedes1976 on 07 July 2008
lombard2578 said:
Diomedes1976 said:
I hope Chart Track keeps revealing the sales numbers weekly.Although we dont need to dramatize ,as GFk does the same for the other countries for software and neither of them gives hardware numbers weekly.

 

Ok, so give me please the top 10 software of Spain for the week 24 and the week 22 of 2008.

If you know the exact days of that week a simple google search in spanish returns directly the GFk data.

I know at least two pages that publish weekly the Spanish charts and have access to past weeks.One is this one :

http://www.vandal.net/noticia/33213/ventas-de-juegos-en-espana/

 

1. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
2. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
3. Wii Play (Wii)
4. Cocina Conmigo ¿Qué preparamos hoy? (NDS)
5. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)
6. Top Spin 3 (PS3)
7. Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (PSP)
8. Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (PS3)
9. Brain Training del Dr. Kawashima(NDS)
10. Los Sims 2 Deluxe (PC)

And as you see there are links to all the past weeks.

Its nowhere as neat as the Chart Track own webpage but at least you get the data.

Looking at the positive side ,maybe GFK will release the data as Chart Track from now on.