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Sales numbers and charts are big news these days, just don’t tell Valve that. The Steam service owner is not interested in handing data for a digital games chart.
Jason Holtman, Steam figurehead said in an interview to MCV that “The idea of a chart is old. It came from people trying to aggregate disaggregated information. What we provide to partners is much more rapid and perfected information.”
Holtman added that “If you look back at the way retail charts have been made, they have been proven to be telling an inaccurate story,” he reiterated his point and said that “they apparently had shown how the PC format was dying when it was actually thriving.”
He finished by saying that it’s not super-important for a publisher or developer to know how everyone’s doing, but to know how YOUR game is doing and why it’s climbing or falling in the charts.
Valve’s Steam service is thought to control more than half the PC download market with over 1,700 games in its library from Call of Duty: Black Ops to indie games such as Braid.
I guess you’re out of luck then if you want to know how many copies Portal 2 sold on Steam, no?
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the way I see it, there so popular/successful they can say screw sale charts.
Jason Holtman, Steam figurehead said in an interview to MCV that “The idea of a chart is old. It came from people trying to aggregate disaggregated information. What we provide to partners is much more rapid and perfected information.”
Holtman added that “If you look back at the way retail charts have been made, they have been proven to be telling an inaccurate story,” he reiterated his point and said that “they apparently had shown how the PC format was dying when it was actually thriving.”
He finished by saying that it’s not super-important for a publisher or developer to know how everyone’s doing, but to know how YOUR game is doing and why it’s climbing or falling in the charts.
Valve’s Steam service is thought to control more than half the PC download market with over 1,700 games in its library from Call of Duty: Black Ops to indie games such as Braid.
I guess you’re out of luck then if you want to know how many copies Portal 2 sold on Steam, no?
source
the way I see it, there so popular/successful they can say screw sale charts.
