How many copies/revenue are top-sellers making?

[Salarian Tax Collector]

A lot of games reach the first top-seller page once they are on sale.
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I am actually curious as to how many copies/revenue a game sells/earns once it's placed on lets say the first page of the (global) top-seller list.

Please don't use Steamspy. That site is as accurate as using your thumb to calculate the next total solar eclipse...
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How many copies/revenue when the game is on the 5th, 10th or 20th top-seller page.
A lot of (sorry but trashy) no-name games&dlcs are at those places but every now and then I see extremely valuable/popular ones in between which makes me wonder whether they're earning any money at those places at all?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

That is privileged information that is not accessible to anyone outside Valve, the game devs and the game publishers.

[Salarian Tax Collector]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

That is privileged information that is not accessible to anyone outside Valve, the game devs and the game publishers.

:qr:

That's why I created this post so that if some publishers, devs posted/stated said information somewhere then someone can post them here.
Rough estimations (maybe based on previous information - no, still no steamspy) are allowed as well since this post is gathering dust quickly.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Most don't publicly post such info. If you want specifics, contact them yourself.

[Salarian Tax Collector]

fauxtronic eredeti hozzászólása:

Your best bet is to check the Wikipedia page for any top seller in question. The figures are only likely to be known for games released by publicly floated publishers, however.

The sales section of the Wikipedia page for Red Dead Redemption 2 for example links to this page[www.gamesindustry.biz] published on the 13th May 2019 which states:

Red Dead Redemption 2 has shipped an impressive 24 million units to date

The info you want is probably out there. You just have to dig for it.

Good link but it sadly doesn't state information regarding the game during its visibility on the top-seller page. I might be wrong but RDR2 is not even purchasable on steam.
But still thanks for the reply.

I will contact some studios and see if I can find some data. Perhaps in the distant, distant future, a lost soul will ponder around and step into this Thread, just as interested and curious as I was, wondering what might have been.

[Washell]

Steamspy exist because that information is under NDA (*).

According to Galyonkin, Valve’s contract with developers forbids the sharing of sales information with third parties

The only way you're going to get it is by either working for or becoming a game publisher with a game on the top seller list. Since you appear to be Elon Musk, just buy one. Or buy Valve.

Steamspy is the closest rough estimate you're going to get, because it's working off years of data, including when they had more direct access. (*)

* https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/267325-new-steam-privacy-changes-kill-steam-spy-service

[Satoru]

Sales data is private to the developers. Developers can choose to share sales data if they wish but steam won't expose it as its something that is very sensitive data for developers.

[wuddih]

the topsellers on Steam are based on very short-term rolling data sorted by their revenue.
so there are no specific numbers that will get you on it.
it all depends on what the flying cat is going on with everything and sometimes there are really, i mean reeeeaaaaly dead days on Steam and just an unexpectedly low number of sales are enough.

i assume you made this thread out of current repulsion. so a question regarding this statement:

Elon Musk eredeti hozzászólása:

A lot of (sorry but trashy) no-name games&dlcs are at those places

since many of the games DLCs are currently in the topsellers.
you don't mean the Sim City 5 of Steam namely Cities: Skylines, do you?

[Salarian Tax Collector]

wuddih eredeti hozzászólása:

you don't mean the Sim City 5 of Steam namely Cities: Skylines, do you?

In which multiverse is Cities Skyline a no-name game/{+dlc}.
I'm talking about actual no-name games (won't list any as I think it would be inappropriate) but games that you would never hear from even after 100 Million years. I know it sounds unclear but just dig through the top seller pages from 14-24, a lot of giant titles like Dark Souls 3, Banished, KSP, Astroneer, Hellblase, Far Cry x, Arma 3 and even Cities Skyline are buried in between very weird unpolished and definitely not greenlight certifiable games that just don't ever look like something to overtake widespread titles like Dark Souls x or Far Cry x (x = any number (mostly latest) i know greenlight is gone and yes I know some people do buy those weird games).
Just curious because it's quite amazing to think a small no-name title that most likely only appears to a very small audience can overtake fully fleshed out publisher directed and approved titles like DS3, Far Cry 5, The Crew 2.

Since the main question is solved/unanswerable, it's fair to wrap up this thread.