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[Avinash_Tyagi]

ioi said:

Diomedes1976 said:

ioi said:

Another idea we have began to explore is randomly polling buyers (the users of this site would be a good start) on a weekly basis to find out what titles they have bought. With a large enough sample size this, combined with retailer info and so on could be a strong step in the right direction. An interactive poll where users can vote once per week maybe - although this is open to "cheating". I guess only being able to select each game once would limit this to an extent but the idea still needs to be thought through.

I'd really like to develop vgchartz in this direction. Tha game database will be running soon, with page popularities and game rankings. We can estimate sales from users and also from a sample of retailers, conduct online research to see what games are most anticipated and so on, develop the predictions league further to use the community as an in-house anaylst. It could actually turn into a very powerful and respected information source indeed, even for industry.

Please please keep thought and comments coming in, these are potentially really huge developments.

Bad idea ,websites about games are nests of fanboys ....that wouldnt be representative .

Yeah I did think that myself when I posted. You would likely get higher sales for critically acclaimed titles like Trauma Center, Yakuza etc and less for Pokemon, Hannah Montanna and so forth, unless we had a way of actively targetting "casual" gamers. I don't know, still an idea at this stage - I think it has some potential if implemented in the correct way. This is essentially how tv viewing figures are arrived at and so on.

 The only way I could see a Poll like such would work is if you hit the big chains weekly and actually poll people who are making game purchases as they are leaving the store