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Will we ever get Win 10 Store sales numbers?

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fantomena

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Microsoft keep pushing their Win 10 store. Gears: UE, Sea of Thieves, Quantum Break, Killer Instinct, Inside, Below and more are coming to Win 10 Store and we still don't know wherever they will be Win 10 Store only or they also will release on Steam.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is the first big title that released on the Win 10 as far as I know. The game released simultaneously on Steam and the Win 10 Store. According to Steamspy about 430k owns the game so far.

This made me question, will we ever get to know how many copies that has been sold on the Win 10 Store?
 
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Only if they manage to break a record or sell more than Steam.
 
They would never release hard data unless it is remarkably positive data, which it won't be.

Best you'll get are a bunch of figures thick with spin that sound good but under any reasonable scrutiny are largely meaningless.

Like they have been doing a lot of with the Xbox One, and like Sony did in the early days of the PS3.
 
YianGaruga said:
You'll get MAUs and you'll like it
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Are you Bill...

Bill Duff, CVP & CFO, Windows and Devices Group

And so we're thinking about Xbox as much more of a community. So we think about the key metrics for us as we engage the user base and our Xbox Live active users, who actually shifted the way we talked about it publicly from how many consoles did we sell to how many Xbox Live active users do we have.
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Maintenance said:
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Only if they manage to break a record or sell more than Steam.
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LOL. That gif perfectly describes it.

Hockeymac18 said:
Do any digital stores release numbers in an official way?
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Nope. They only release how much money they made off of it (or a percentage or user engagement).

The "how much did it sell" threads will come to a close. Thank god. And as someone else said...those numbers will soon include Xbox One numbers (as the stores will be united). So no PC v. XBO numbers either.
 
Not sure why it even matters to anyone's purchase? Do people actually log onto Steam/XBL/PSN with these kinds of things in mind?
 
I can't see any situation where it would make sense for them to.

If it performs terribly, then you would simply throw it in with Xbox numbers.
If it performs amazingly, then you'd throw Xbox numbers in with it.
... and same for anything in between.
 
Ushay said:
Not sure why it even matters to anyone's purchase? Do people actually log onto Steam/XBL/PSN with these kinds of things in mind?
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it only matters because right now we don't know if upcoming XB1-PC games will be available exclusively from the Win10 store, or also from Steam.

sales numbers from the Win10 store would help reaffirm that games sell better on Steam (duh), and if the case is that those XB1-PC games are only available from the Win10 store, people can take those numbers and throw them back at microsoft saying "ha ha win10 store only sold 16 copies, look at how much money you're leaving on the table silly microsoft, should have put your games on steam too"

there is a better and more direct question, its "will microsoft's upcoming XB1-PC games be exclusive to the Win10 store?"
there is that windows event later this month, hopefully it will clear some of these questions up
 
iNvid02 said:
it only matters because right now we don't know if upcoming XB1-PC games will be available exclusively from the Win10 store, or also from Steam.

sales numbers from the Win10 store would help reaffirm that games sell better on Steam (duh), and if the case is that those XB1-PC games are only available from the Win10 store, people can take those numbers and throw them back at microsoft saying "ha ha win10 store only sold 16 copies, look at how much money you're leaving on the table silly microsoft, should have put your games on steam too"

there is a better and more direct question, its "will microsoft's upcoming XB1-PC games be exclusive to the Win10 store?"
there is that windows event later this month, hopefully it will clear some of these questions up
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Yes to the last question...unequivocally....
 
iNvid02 said:
it only matters because right now we don't know if upcoming XB1-PC games will be available exclusively from the Win10 store, or also from Steam.

sales numbers from the Win10 store would help reaffirm that games sell better on Steam (duh), and if the case is that those XB1-PC games are only available from the Win10 store, people can take those numbers and throw them back at microsoft saying "ha ha win10 store only sold 16 copies, look at how much money you're leaving on the table silly microsoft, should have put your games on steam too"

there is a better and more direct question, its "will microsoft's upcoming XB1-PC games be exclusive to the Win10 store?"
there is that windows event later this month, hopefully it will clear some of these questions up
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Combined numbers will always look better, so my guess is they will do that going forward. That or MAU's all up in this bitch haha.
 
They dont want people to know about games bombing on their lackluster store.
Although, I wouldnt be surprised if their Ukrainian store moved a fair number of units sold :>
 
All MSFT IP's that's gonna be out on WIN10 are believed to be WIN10 store exclusive, and not Steam, as it makes the most business sense (despite it may or may not financially). It's just like how the Xbox One first party games are releasing exclusively for WIN10, and not XP/Vista/7/8.

If Square wishes to release a sales chart for Rise of the Tomb Raider, or hint them in their fiscal year report, that's their prerogative.

Unless there's a 3rd party windowspy, we're pretty much gonna get MAU's as the only metric from MSFT.
 
Officially, only if they are actually competitive. So probably never.

Unofficially? If someone managed to statistically sample them I guess.
 
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