Adventure game sales figures

[PaulSC]

I was just wondering: does anyone know know any statistics that show the overall sales of specific adventure games (I'm mainly thinking Lucasarts, Searra etc) over the years?

It's common knowledge when the commercial peaks and declines of the genre were, generally speaking, but I'd love to see some hard stats just to see exactly what the trends were, and to get an impression of the relative popularity of individual games.

I'd also be interested in exactly how much these games actually cost to produce, but that's maybe asking a little much.

So, does anyone have any info?

[remixor]

Unfortunately, nobody has such figures.  Unlike most other entertainment industries, there are no reliable sales reports for games that actually include all possible outlets (retail, web, etc.).  The only people who know are the publisher, and they only know how many units they ship to retail, not how many are sold, and they often don't even have those numbers.

[PaulSC]

Ah, okay. Thanks for the info, though!