It seems that MMOs and games sometimes and/or regularly outsell the custom consoles that people make, meaning that everyone who has the console has multiple copies, which would be illogical. Anyways, my idea is that if a game reaches the same amount of sales as the console, you can still sell, but you sell 0 units until you sell more consoles. Some people will most likely disagree, as this makes Game Dev Tycoon go 'round, but I thought it would be more logical. (I also saw a picture of someone who sold more copies than people in the entire world.)
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Yes thats true, this is confusing as I release a game console that has only made 1.8M sales but my racing game on that console a few months later reached 11M sales, so it is indeed confusing…it should be limited and tweaked.
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i sold 6M consoles and 300M+ copies of a game. ;p
how D: MMO don’t count 
Agreed, it’s a rather daft oversight.
I’m sure its the dev’s way to tell you you have a pirated version of his game. Selling more copies of games than the console means the consoles got pirated lmao
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Imagine the MMO sales are after a point the monthly subscribtions fees. The developpers had to bring it into the game, without making the model too complex.
I nonetheless agree it could use more polish.
Well… for the time being I don’t really mind because out of a single MMO I managed to rake up over 10 billion users… lol…
I don’t even know how every man, women, and child got their games over and over again, but that must be some game that I created…
for MMOs you can justify it as a “current subscribers” count. as long as the count each week isn’t higher than the sales of the console, it works.
when a more traditional game sells nearly 3 times as many copies as the console has sold though…
Yeah I don’t get that Flame…Im gonna release a MMO on my new console, see how much sales that racks up.
But hey, often some users have more than one account. It could be possible that very much people want to have a restart but they won’t loose their old account. So they buy a new copy of the game and create a new account.
Yeah but it makes no sense on why they would want to fork out another $60 for another game when they have it.