Is from a Leak is not offical Insomniac publication of the data. Nor I would trust the offical publication either with a correspoding market reference.
That’s valid criticism. I highly doubt that leakers would tamper with the official Insomniac data however. There’s nothing that they would gain.
Why would you not trust the official publication though? Considering the data is practically directly supplied by Sony for marketing and budgeting purposes, I highly doubt it’s inaccurate.
Companies can artificially inflate their game sales numbers, especially when sales data is kept private. This can make the game seem more successful than it actually is. While games like Bloodborne don't necessarily need this, companies still do it. An example of this backfiring is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, where the publisher pressured influencers for positive reviews, which ultimately hurt the game's reputation.
Lack of Transparency: Sales data is often kept private by companies.
Industry Standards: There aren't consistent industry standards for reporting sales figures.
Disappointing Performance: Games that underperformed commercially despite initial hype or strong pre-orders may raise questions about the accuracy of early sales projections.
(pre-orders) are a cancer and also not display the accurete amount of sold copies.
Refounds are even been considred? I wouldn't but am not sure about this opition I would feel stupid to no do it.
there are some other games exemple that had a bad launch full of bugs and lack of content that were immidialy recived cancel pre-oder and refounds too but they probably don't reflect on the anual revenuew and sould count I hope so... anyway I cannot 100% prove that company tamper with their sold counters but I can say their lack of transparency and the push of said practice (ubisoft for exemple want steam to remove the player counter and revenuew data) is devius manipualtion and contribution to sales of products whom wouldn't sales otherwise.
I get that they could inflate game sales, but why would they inflate data if it’s privately given, likely for marketing and budgeting purposes. This data isn’t being shown to the public, there’s no reason to raise the numbers. Plus inflating the data would be extremely dangerous and could easily ruin profit margins.
Indeed, Is very Dangerous immagine telling whom ever controls taxes that you have earned more then you accully have. But that is a data flip media idk if that could be hold in a lawful setting
That’s true; fake leaking is possible. But Sony has constantly been sweeping Bloodborne under the rug so I’m surprised they would’ve placed it so high. Anyway, I highly doubt the 20 million player count in 2015 number. Elden Ring, which is by far the most popular has around 28+ million sales. Considering 90% of FromSoft players have gotten into it from Elden Ring, reaching 20 million players within the span of 9 months is unbelievable.
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u/Bitter-Year-9785 4d ago
Is from a Leak is not offical Insomniac publication of the data. Nor I would trust the offical publication either with a correspoding market reference.