![]() ![]() (You may have been aware, but this is further confirmation.) Median unit sales for different amounts of wishlists? ![]() So it seems like the correlation is very loose across a large number of games, and you should not ‘take your wishlists to the bank’. In this case, the highest likely result is 60+ times the lowest! the highest likely result is 3 times the lowest. ![]() ![]() This is a crazily high range, given that the other things we survey - like Week 1: Year 1 revenue multiples or even Steam units sold compared to number of reviews - are often within a ‘3-fold’ range - i.e. So that’s good news! But we really want to drill down on the possible range, because Week 1 sales on Steam span anything from 1.5% to 100+% percent of launch wishlists. If you look at the two ‘battletested’ spreadsheets we published recently - from GameDiscoverCo and Fellow Traveller - both of these use 0.2 (aka 20%) sales as the most obvious option - one for Week 1, one for Month 1. The above graph is the full data set from our new survey, in ascending order. On a broad basis, the answer we get this time is the same - a game’s first week unit sales have a median of 0.2x its total Steam wishlists at launch. You may recall we surveyed this correlation for all ages of Steam games back in June 2020. Steam wishlists compared to sales - does it track? Initial sales compared to Steam wishlists at launch - is there a provable relationship? And our next survey results are looking at something everyone wants to know about. Our first results from this data examined ‘long tail’ revenue for your Steam game, with some very useful top-line estimates. For those who missed it, we fielded an anonymous survey in August that got more than 75 responses from Steam devs/publishers, all for newer games that launched in 2019, 2020, or 2021. The Steam Winter Sale is six months away, but if you follow this advice, you won't have to wait for the winter to get great deals on games you're excited about.Welcome to the second free GameDiscoverCo newsletter of the week - and this time, we’re back looking at our Steam survey data again. If there's any games that you want to buy but aren't sure whether you should spend the full price, then putting them on your wishlist like this is a great idea. That's all there is to it, you'll never miss a Steam Sale or a discount on a game on your wishlist ever again. To do this, go to the game's page on Steam, and just click on Add to your Wishlist, on the right side of the screen. Remember also to add games you're interested in to your Wishlist. After choosing what you want, hit Save.ĥ. You can also opt out of all email marketing communication. Here you can opt in for emails to be sent when a Steam Sale starts and when an item on your wishlist is on sale. This opens up your account within Steam's own browser, on the right side, you'll see an section called Email Preferences, click on Configure your email preferences below it.Ĥ. You'll see an option called Account details, click it.ģ. This guide tells you exactly how to do that.ġ. Rather than have obsessively checking Steam to sift through deals, you should just enable notifications so that you're informed when games on your wishlist are up for sale and when sales begin, making it easier for you to purchase what you want without emptying your wallet. You'll always find something on discount on Steam, and more often than not, it will actually be a game you're interested. Aside from the usual Summer and Winter Sales, Steam also has daily and weekly deals. That is over now, but there are still a few tricks you can use to ensure that you never miss a deal. If you're a PC gamer then you probably just emptied you wallet thanks to the Steam Summer Sale. ![]()
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