Podcast Beyond Episode 415: Mysteries of The Video Game Industry

Beyond

IGN

Entertainment News, News, Video Games, Leisure

4.4 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week on Beyond, Max, Marty, Brian and Lil' Goldie discuss Kojima's alleged departure, which Konami claims is a vacation, Alan Tudyk's awkward breakup with Uncharted 4, and the murmurs that Destiny scrapped its entire story shortly before launch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:59.7	all the people who are allowed to read it, which is a very small group of people, right?
3:03.7	Well, so basically the idea is that it's the second Thursday of every month at 330 PM Pacific.
3:08.2	Yeah.
3:08.7	We get a drop, which is the top 10 best selling sales, software sales in the United States for that month.
3:13.7	And then they do commentary on their larger report.
3:16.5	So analysts will say like, okay, like this is like what we can tell you about trends and how it compares to a year ago and five years ago.
3:22.5	And if there's something like, oh, it's the first time a sports game has ever been number four and things like that.
3:26.2	That's cool stuff like that.
3:27.0	But then like publishers and developers and people who pay very high amount of money like someone's yearly salary can get a very detailed report or specific sales numbers.
3:36.0	Which is very insane because I'm looking, we had that once where we dug so deep into it that we found like, we found the call of duty sales on the, on the, on the Wii.
3:46.8	It's not even more obscure than that.
3:48.2	It's like somewhere in the United States, some random came art sold one copy of a Game Boy Advance game of Scooby Doo's mystery.
3:54.9	Exactly.
3:55.4	Yeah, it's on that list.
3:56.4	So it's all like, but so where gets very strange is that they control all of that messaging until Sony Nintendo and Microsoft go, oh, we're going to send out an email also.
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