Deucey  | 05 Feb 2016 10:32 a.m. PST |
Is there anywhere to find out sales figures for games, miniatures, and rulesets? |
| 79thPA | 05 Feb 2016 10:45 a.m. PST |
That is both a vague and extensive undertaking. You might be able to get some information from a company like GW or Hasbro that reports to stock holders; Old Glory does not report how many packs of what it sells; and Sam may tell you how many copies of which rules sold how many copies if you ask him, but he is not obligated to; nor is there a central repository for information that no one is required to provide. Can you narrow down your scope of inquiry? |
 Dye4minis | 05 Feb 2016 11:18 a.m. PST |
You might try contacting GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association of America). Sorry, haven't been a member for over 6 years and no longer have any contact info. Maybe Dave Babb at Stone Mountain Miniatures could help find current contact info for them for you? Tom |
 Extra Crispy  | 05 Feb 2016 1:28 p.m. PST |
The short answer in any meaningful sensevin "no." |
| Marshal Mark | 06 Feb 2016 12:53 p.m. PST |
Is there anywhere to find out sales figures for games, miniatures, and rulesets? If you want to know how many copies a particular ruleset has sold, I think the only way would be to ask the publisher. Or is it something more general you are looking for, like how many copies does a typical ruleset sell ? |
| Wolfhag | 07 Feb 2016 9:44 p.m. PST |
I think another way would be to find out how many printings they've done and about how many in a print run. Wolfhag |
| Deucey | 08 Feb 2016 7:32 p.m. PST |
|
| Fergal | 09 Feb 2016 5:43 a.m. PST |
Whats typical? absolutely nothing in this hobby is typical… |
| Weasel | 09 Feb 2016 9:30 a.m. PST |
Probably nothing central. I can volunteer some info but that'd be applicable just to myself. There's a huge difference too between "one man show", "a couple of guys" shows (TFL for example) and the "big boys" (GW, War Machine etc.) My best selling game has done a bit over 400 copies. That's probably big by one man show standards, I imagine its very small next to something like Chain of Command and would be a dismal failure for GW :-) |
| Rudysnelson | 09 Feb 2016 10:44 a.m. PST |
Meaningful data would be hard. Even if you got a designer/publisher to tell you their sales, that is still incomplete.
A designer would have direct,store and manufacturer sales that they did. However, the'in the pipeline ' copies sold are not known. He has no how many copies are still at the distributor or store and never made it to a player. |
| Weasel | 10 Feb 2016 4:46 p.m. PST |
And sales of course are hard to correlate to players. One guy buys a game never plays it.
Another guy buys a game plays once, and doesn't repeat.
A third buys the game, plays and intends to play again.
A fourth buys the game and all 5 of their friends play regularly.
A fifth never bought it but played at a conversation. Now, how many players does 1000 sales equate to? :-) |
journeys to and from the Australian national convention - and tells us what he thinks of panicking tank hordes and flat terrain!