/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>22989563
All Aru did was show that the figures for what is considered "good" (as in constantly at the top of the top 10 for multiple months) sales wise on the MG store aren't as high as people would expect making it hard to really figure out how much stuff actually is selling. You could probably jump up the sales list by selling a dozen copies of something.
The old sales graphs using the order numbers posted here were more useful at getting a rough idea on how much sales were spiking for each release.

>>20978379
>but I bet the nyaa numbers divided by 2 or 3 are what he's looking at to get a ballpark of how well other releases by other companies did
Sounds like it open to a large margin of error if he is really doing that. Not every license is going to cost the same and not every VN is the same price. On top of that you have Steam which takes %30 vs self owned stores.

>>20978380
There is a difference between listing top sellers and knowing profit margins.

>>20978384
You can just look up the current order number if you want to see if sales are slowing down or not. If you are new then a while back some anon would track it to show the sales growth but he stopped over a year ago. Here is the last chart.

Evenicle
Order Number - 307910
Order Date - 2018-05-31 14:08:53

I know we don't have order tracker anon anymore, but I thought I would post this anyway in case anyone else feels like sharing. Screenshot is the last image he left behind for the sake of comparison.

Well /jp/, I'm afraid this is probably my last mangagamer tracker update on account of the fact that I haven't bought any english translated VNs this year and haven't really been following the translated scene anymore.

If anyone is interested in taking up the torch(especially someone who regularly buys translated VNs, so they can supply order numbers at opportune comparison intervals), you're more than welcome to do so. None of the pastebins below will expire either.

Shocking secret of the mangagamer sales tracker: If you use the fill tool on the white of the image, you'll learn that there's been a japanese bird cooking spaghetti this entire time

Pastebin of every order number collected uptil today, paste it into excel/equivalent program to make any necessary charts:
https://pastebin.com/7f5i4C9K

Pastebin of weekly recordings of the mangagamer top 5 sellers.
https://pastebin.com/XL7Dk9M1

Pastebin of weekly recordings of the first two catalog pages "sorted by popularity"
https://pastebin.com/HTxHkPzK