Dunno, golf was a dying game in my area, courses were closing all over the places. Owners of courses were complaining business was dying. Then Covid came, and golf was just about the only sport open for customers, no problem with distance restrictions. Suddenly golf was booming again in summer 2020, and it was very hard to book a tee time. And it was the same for video games, there was not much else to do when everybody were restricted to their homes. PGA 2K21 went on sale at the perfect time. And EA were boasting some record sales for their games too. We will probably never see those numbers again.
@Katybee_1313 wrote:Dunno, golf was a dying game in my area, courses were closing all over the places. Owners of courses were complaining business was dying. Then Covid came, and golf was just about the only sport open for customers, no problem with distance restrictions. Suddenly golf was booming again in summer 2020, and it was very hard to book a tee time. And it was the same for video games, there was not much else to do when everybody were restricted to their homes. PGA 2K21 went on sale at the perfect time. And EA were boasting some record sales for their games too. We will probably never see those numbers again.
I think you make a valid argument about COVID adding to the sales numbers of 2K21, however I remember reading somewhere 2K2019 sold 880,000 units for PS4 alone. Though I can't confirm it... I'm not sure why it is so hard to find sales numbers.
It was probably a lot easier to get sales numbers when it was physical copies instead of almost all digital copies these days. Just a guess.
@Katybee_1313 wrote:It was probably a lot easier to get sales numbers when it was physical copies instead of almost all digital copies these days. Just a guess.
I would actually think it would be the other way around. That you can easily track digital copies sold, where physical copies are distributed to the marketplace. You never know what is actually sold, stolen or just sitting on the shelf.
@ELF014 wrote:
@Katybee_1313 wrote:It was probably a lot easier to get sales numbers when it was physical copies instead of almost all digital copies these days. Just a guess.
I would actually think it would be the other way around. That you can easily track digital copies sold, where physical copies are distributed to the marketplace. You never know what is actually sold, stolen or just sitting on the shelf.
I'm sure it's very easy for companies, but we used to get all the info thru vgchartz as copy shipped. As you mentioned, it seemed very hard to get sales numbers these days. We're getting infos when companies are giving them publicly or in their Quarterly report.
