Nintendo has changed its eShop charts in an apparent move to hide shovelware | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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Following Switch‘s recent software update, Nintendo has changed the way the sales charts on the eShop are calculated. Now, instead of counting the number of games sold over the past 48 hours and using that to rank the charts, it instead charts revenue across the previous 72 hours.

This means that games with rock-bottom pricing will no longer show up on the charts, as a $1 game would have to sell 60 copies to match one $60 game sold.

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[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

This means that games with rock-bottom pricing will no longer show up on the charts, as a $1 game would have to sell 60 copies to match one $60 game sold.

I don't see how this is any better. Isn't it just going to put all the stupid AAA titles at the top now? This is going to hurt the indie devs, no?

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Well, they are trying something, whether it's overall better or not is yet to be seen. SwitchUp recently did a video about it, I haven't watched it yet, but I think they discussed the indie aspect in that, not sure what their conclusion was though.

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