Total software sales contract

The industry has demanded and the simExchange is responding. We are introducing a new type of futures contract to forecast the total video game software sales in a particular month. The reason this is important is to see how big the video game industry really is.

The new futures contract trades much like the unit sales contracts. It will also be settled against NPD Group's data. 1 DKP price corresponds to $10 million in sales. For example, a 45 DKP price on the future would correspond to $450 million in sales.

We will be IPOing an August Total Software Sales contract on August 31, 2007 as a trial run to see how our system functions. Please report any problems you encounter while using this new contract and the related features by using the Contact Us form.

To help you better forecast this figure, the total software sales figure for the same month last year and the one for the previous month are provided in the Total Software Sales Wiki summary for your reference. Submitting news from the Total Software Sales page will submit to Industry News. Commenting on the futures will appear in the Industry News channel.