UKIE has today revealed the public beta for their new PC Download Chart.
The UK's interactive entertainment trade-body has been trying to put together a comprehensive sales chart for downloaded PC games for some time now. Well, it looks they have succeeded at last.
The chart has been created by a gathering of 25 organisations proactively involved with the distribution of PC video game products. UKIE reckons that the ‘digital group' represents about 80% of the boxed PC game market, and that digital sales account for roughly 40% of the overall PC games market.
UKIE CEO, Jo Twist, commented: "We are delighted to reveal the UK's first digital chart based on real sales data. This is a watershed moment for our industry, but it is only the first step in capturing the full digital market. There is still a lot of work to be done, and we need more data, but we felt that the market would benefit from seeing that this project is very much on course."
Sam Collins, Commercial Manager at UKIE, later added: "The members of the UKIE digital group have invested considerable time and effort into this project and I am very happy that their support is now being rewarded. The big challenges now are to bring more companies in to the project to make it truly representative of the market and to expand the platforms covered. In order to do this we need to work with more companies. The door is open please come and talk to UKIE about how to get involved".