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Do you like the new charts?

They are awsome! 12 3.55%
 
Yes! 39 11.54%
 
No! 137 40.53%
 
I hate them! 139 41.12%
 
Bah, charts... 11 3.25%
 
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maximrace on 28 November 2011

Personaly, I like the new charts. It's nice to see the EMEA chart beeing split up into multiple regions. Makes it easier for us to watch the sales of a platform. Maybe a negative point is that I noticed only thirthy games are showed on the software charts instead of the fifty before. Overall, I think the update adds a lot to the site! But what do YOU think?



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Moren on 28 November 2011

Yeah, all is a lot better, sad about the Top 50 gone, but everything else is looking really neat.

Also, because there are still complainers:

ioi said:
We don't have (and probably won't have for the forseeable future) any direct coverage of markets like Latin America, Asia, Africa or Middle East. We know roughly how big they are but no idea on which games / hardware sells and which doesn't. This is obviously something we are working on long term but the immediate change is to provide better detail on the regions we do track well. This means individual charts for:

- USA
- Canada
- UK
- Germany
- France
- Spain
- Italy
- Japan

And combined extrapolated charts for:

- Europe (UK + France + Germany + Spain + Italy extrapolated)
- Global (USA + Canada + Europe + Japan extrapolated)

So there will be 10 charts in total - 8 direct regional charts and two extrapolated charts (that will clearly have greater margins of error). Those 8 regions represent 79% of total worldwide sales for 2010 so the other 21% will essentially be an (intelligent) extrapolation of the data we have.

As we hopefully start to make some inroads with Latin America + Mexico (3.5%), Asia (3.2%), Australia (3%), Middle East and Africa (1.2%) and the rest of Europe (10%) we should be able to start doing weekly charts for them also and obviously including them in the global chart making it more and more accurate. Most of these regions will be heavily PS2 / PSP dominated which will explain why we may have always seemed low (and will continue to for the time being) on global hardware and software sales for those two platforms.


travis on 28 November 2011

It seems to be messing up the totals... I rather have more complete total numbers than more specific charts. I Hope things are gonna be fixed and that no data will be lost in the process. For exemple what will happen to past sales in Europe? Do they have the data to split the past sales for each specific country or region?

I'm king of scared at the moment since i'm a charts maniac...



kivi95 on 28 November 2011
morenoingrato said:

Yeah, all is a lot better, sad about the Top 50 gone, but everything else is looking really neat.

Also, because there are still complainers:

ioi said:
We don't have (and probably won't have for the forseeable future) any direct coverage of markets like Latin America, Asia, Africa or Middle East. We know roughly how big they are but no idea on which games / hardware sells and which doesn't. This is obviously something we are working on long term but the immediate change is to provide better detail on the regions we do track well. This means individual charts for:

- USA
- Canada
- UK
- Germany
- France
- Spain
- Italy
- Japan

And combined extrapolated charts for:

- Europe (UK + France + Germany + Spain + Italy extrapolated)
- Global (USA + Canada + Europe + Japan extrapolated)

So there will be 10 charts in total - 8 direct regional charts and two extrapolated charts (that will clearly have greater margins of error). Those 8 regions represent 79% of total worldwide sales for 2010 so the other 21% will essentially be an (intelligent) extrapolation of the data we have.

As we hopefully start to make some inroads with Latin America + Mexico (3.5%), Asia (3.2%), Australia (3%), Middle East and Africa (1.2%) and the rest of Europe (10%) we should be able to start doing weekly charts for them also and obviously including them in the global chart making it more and more accurate. Most of these regions will be heavily PS2 / PSP dominated which will explain why we may have always seemed low (and will continue to for the time being) on global hardware and software sales for those two platforms.

So no fully Europe Chart anymore ? :( or am I reading it all wrong?



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maximrace on 28 November 2011
pezus said:
They aren't even all up yet...

Yeah, But I think the direction is clear... If the others come online you can comment on these too.



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Moren on 28 November 2011
kivi95 said:

So no fully Europe Chart anymore ? :( or am I reading it all wrong?

I think the rest of Europe is going to "Others".

I think it is fine, it is a small part after all.



ljigga on 28 November 2011

Don't like it at all



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TruckOSaurus on 28 November 2011

They are fine presentation wise but the numbers of old games are messed up:

14
Kinect Adventures! (X360)
Microsoft, Other
55 107,347 587,259
15
Fable III (X360)
Microsoft, RPG
56 99,355 312,644
16
Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
Nintendo, Racer
186 78,367 797,811


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maximrace on 28 November 2011
spurgeonryan said:
I understand why they did it, and it all makes sense, but I will miss getting that warm and fuzzy that we all knew what sales were for EMEAA.
Now we get what? Japan, USA, and Europe only? I have been looking at it since it was posted, but not entirely sure I understand the new system yet.
As long as WW is still there I will not care much.
By the way how will the change effect sales of other games that came out during the old method? Will there still be EMEAA numbers on individual game pages?

If you think it through it's rather easy... It's this way: Instead of Americas we now have Canada+ USA. LA and MA will be added to the ww chart ( maybe in a tab or just counted in the numbers, that's not clear yet). Instead of EMEA we now have a UK, Spain, Germany, France and Italy chart and an Eurpean chart ( includes the charts mentioned and a educated guess about the other countries ( like the others europe). Japans stays the same and Asia, Australia... will be counted with the worldwide chart ( again don't know with a tab or without).

Clear?



Pbs on 28 November 2011

Where i can look global software weekly charts? I dont need regional charts at all.