Knowing the sales makes me sleep at night.

to put it simply i want my console of choice to succeed. after sega abandoned the dreamcast after a mere two years before the last generation even started, i want to be sure that the console manufacturer i chose will not abandon the console after i wasted so much money on it.

This is pretty much the reason I like the sales aspect of this site too.

I think the 4 different kinds of people (sales wise) can be summed up as

1. Number junkies. Wannabe statisticians (such as myself)

2. People who want their favourite games to sell well, so that there will be more of those games.

3. Those who want to use sales as proof that their machine is superior to the others.

4. The people who don't care about sales.

That doesn't sum up everyone, but I think the vast majority of the site is covered in those 4.

1- know that the company who made a game i loved is being rewarded with good sales

2- Being rewarded with good sales makes it more likely i will play a sequel