@sonycowboy, By their press release, they did not say that were going to start tracking digital distribution of full games on the PC through services such as Steam, Direct2Drive, etc. They stated tracking only for "paid online subscriptions to video games and MMO/PC games, gaming Web sites, and video game console services" - this list does not include digital sales of videogames through the PC. I assume that the different services such as Steam and Direct2Drive probably do not want to share the information of their sales numbers. Also, by their phrasing Virtual Console sales, PSN sales, and XBLA sales are not going to be part of these reports.
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By their press release, they did not say that were going to start tracking digital distribution of full games on the PC through services such as Steam, Direct2Drive, etc. They stated tracking only for "paid online subscriptions to video games and MMO/PC games, gaming Web sites, and video game console services" - this list does not include digital sales of videogames through the PC. I assume that the different services such as Steam and Direct2Drive probably do not want to share the information of their sales numbers. Also, by their phrasing Virtual Console sales, PSN sales, and XBLA sales are not going to be part of these reports.