Mockduck Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 I noticed that my first purchase through the Atari VCS Store in December 20th, 2020 was listed as order number 623 on the receipt, and after purchasing The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark just now the receipt lists it as order number 7792. Does that mean roughly 7800 sales in total through the Store? I notice the free apps don't give you a receipt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stirrell Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Who is going to get the coveted order 7800? Who got 2600, I wonder… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabertoothRetro Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Mine was 7797 so someone is 7800 by now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabertoothRetro Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Does this mean they have only moved 8K paid games out of 11-15K consoles? Is everyone just playing Antstream, Air Console, Atari Vault 1 and the Unsung Warriors and Guntech demos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 18 hours ago, SabertoothRetro said: Does this mean they have only moved 8K paid games out of 11-15K consoles? Some are probably sitting unopened in a closet or on ebay. I hope others post order numbers here, it could give a rough idea on monthly sales and show how active the community is over time etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 My VCS order numbers are #14692 for the controllers and #14702 for the console. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skorphy Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 On 8/10/2021 at 2:33 PM, Mockduck said: I noticed that my first purchase through the Atari VCS Store in December 20th, 2020 was listed as order number 623 on the receipt, and after purchasing The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark just now the receipt lists it as order number 7792. Does that mean roughly 7800 sales in total through the Store? I notice the free apps don't give you a receipt. I just got 7900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skorphy Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 On 8/11/2021 at 1:45 AM, SabertoothRetro said: Does this mean they have only moved 8K paid games out of 11-15K consoles? Is everyone just playing Antstream, Air Console, Atari Vault 1 and the Unsung Warriors and Guntech demos? This would be a shame if it's true. I've bought a dozen or so games. No point to have a system without content. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 I´ve ordered "Atari VCS800 Blk Walnut All-In" at atarivcs.com on June 26th and got Order number #3088. Yesterday a friend from the US came to Germany and brought it to me, and I love it! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabertoothRetro Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 I think that the order numbers for software from the AtariOS store are different than the hardware order numbers. Here are my software orders and dates from my email: 3-1 4595 3-2 4608 3-5 4636 3-13 4820 3-25 4948 5-9 5534 5-18 5587 8-10 7797 8-20 7979 The software order numbers appear to simply increment. If that's true, there have been about 8,000 paid software orders since the soft launch late last year. I wonder what the top selling games are? Of the paid games, VCS Vault 2 has the most ratings (101), followed by Danger Scavenger (89) and Guntech (72). Of course, the total number of ratings in no where near 8K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn8k Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 I decided I have to get a VCS.... Cannot get it shipped to Canada......from anywhere but ebay at rape pricing. Unless someone coming to Toronto anytime soon can bring me one over the border. I will have to wait another month until hopefully that border opens and I can drive the 4 hours to get it myself. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vatcaris Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Today I bought The Darkside Detective and the order number is 8013. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilsaluki Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 20 minutes ago, sn8k said: I decided I have to get a VCS.... Cannot get it shipped to Canada......from anywhere but ebay at rape pricing. Unless someone coming to Toronto anytime soon can bring me one over the border. I will have to wait another month until hopefully that border opens and I can drive the 4 hours to get it myself. Fly to Mexico, That border is WIDE open. DBM.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 (edited) On 15 Aug, I bought "something ate my alien". My receipt number was 7934. On 1 Jul, I bought Danger Scavenger, with receipt number 6743. On 13 Jun, I bought Sir Lovelot, with receipt number 6167. On 23 May, I bought Aery- Little Bird Adventure, with receipt number 5674. On 22 May, I bought Frog Hop, with receipt number 5646. I can't find the rest of my purchases in my email program. I must have deleted them... Edited August 23, 2021 by tripled79 more to add 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabertoothRetro Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Just for fun, I looked at the order numbers and dates reported by @Mockduck, @tripled79 and myself for software purchases from the AtariOS store. Using order 623 on 12/20/20 as the first order and order 7979 on 8/20/21 as the last order, we can (reasonably) ascertain the following: - 7,356 sales in 243 days; average of 30.27 sales a day. - from 12/20 to 3/1 there were 3,972 sales in a 71 day period; average of 55.94 sales a day. - from 3/1 to 8/20 there were 3,384 sales in a 172 day period ; average of 19.67 sales a day. This is a 65% decline in daily number of sales compared to the period 12/20/20 to 3/1/21. - from 6/13 to 8/10 there were 1,625 sales over a 58 day period; about 28 sales a day. - from 8/10 to 8/20 there were 182 sales in a 10 day; so 18.2 sales a day. Obviously, this is rough and we may not be accounting for all sales on a particular start and end date. But given the apparently low number of software sales, it gives us a reasonable picture of software activity at the store. My guess is that the backers were the most enthusiastic group and largely bought whatever they were interested in early on. With games trickling out slowly and - perhaps - their waning interest, daily sales tapered off. There is a bit of a jump at retail launch to 28 daily sales but this is back down by August 20 to 18. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Just bought Jetboard Joust so we're up to 8031! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 On 8/22/2021 at 4:07 PM, sn8k said: I will have to wait another month until hopefully that border opens and I can drive the 4 hours to get it myself. Bring back several, and sell them privately to recoup the cost of the one you keep. ? As a Canadian, it is so frustrating how difficult it can be to obtain certain products here. Sometimes the grey market is the only option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn8k Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 5 hours ago, jhd said: Bring back several, and sell them privately to recoup the cost of the one you keep. ? As a Canadian, it is so frustrating how difficult it can be to obtain certain products here. Sometimes the grey market is the only option. Hey bro, need a VCS...... $700 lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 You laugh, I have indeed seen Canadian retail stores selling new game consoles with a 200% mark-up, after adjusting for the exchange rate. Someone originally purchased the merchandise at retail in the United States for later resale in the shop. I would not pay that much, but some people are willing to do so or else the market would not exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Helper Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 LOL Atari included its order counter on its receipts. You can totally track all there sales there until they snap and fix it. LOL they will not snap Atari is dumb! If you make a game for the VCS now you can expect a max 5k buy if it was the best game ever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 On 8/27/2021 at 10:59 PM, Chris Brockman said: LOL Atari included its order counter on its receipts. You can totally track all there sales there until they snap and fix it. LOL they will not snap Atari is dumb! If you make a game for the VCS now you can expect a max 5k buy if it was the best game ever. Says the guy who doesn't know how to properly use the word "their"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Just bought Centipede: Recharged. Order ID: 8571 C'mon people! Bring that number up to 10,000! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockduck Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 Following back on this, it does indeed seem like this is a progressive number based on Store purchases. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabertoothRetro Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 My Centipede Recharged order was 8493. Yes, definitely progressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugcatcher88 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 My order for Centipede was 8564. I made the purchase yesterday around 3PM EST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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