[Drem]

I've always been curious about games' sales figures. I recently found VG Charts, which delighted me very much. However, after looking at them, I remembered that I really have no idea what I'm looking at. What constitutes a good sale run for a game? The more popular games, of course, have sold millions. The lowest seem to be around 250-1,000 range. And then there are all the games in the middle.

I know a lot of it is based on the game's budget. A high-budget game selling 5,000 is a lot worse than a very cheap game selling 5,000. But what, generally, is the average number for the average game? How much does an unknown game need to sell to become a "sleeper hit?" Hotel Dusk has apparently sold 62,250 copies.* Is that hot or not?




*I just noticed this is for the Japanese release. It doesn't have American figures yet.

[tacotaskforce]

For a game with no advertising 62k is probably pretty good.
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[Baines]

It is hard to get accurate US numbers, at least without paying money and/or signing NDAs.

Nintendo has also made the argument in the past that numbers reported by others for their games are low. Something about the reporting service not including sales from a couple of sources that move a decent percentage of Nintendo games? *shrug*