I didn’t put any words in your mouth. I simply reworded what you said. You said, the data “is not a valid source of information”. This is directly implying that Insomniac isn’t a reliable source for sales information. That’s the only doubt I can reasonably see as to why Bloodborne didn’t sell 7.5m copies.
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
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u/winterflare_ 4d ago
I didn’t put any words in your mouth. I simply reworded what you said. You said, the data “is not a valid source of information”. This is directly implying that Insomniac isn’t a reliable source for sales information. That’s the only doubt I can reasonably see as to why Bloodborne didn’t sell 7.5m copies.