Game database reviews - how should we do it?

[NeoRatt]

I think this site's value prosition is in the predictions league, games / console sales, sales news, and forums.

The games database is nice, but it is only a "tack on" feature unless you intend on becoming bigger then metacritic and gamerankings. I think user game reviews are fine, but they should be critiqued by mods so that you don't get in some sort of legal battle when, one of the big three sues you because one of the competitors wrote a crappy review on your site and then posted it through N4G or some sort of other aggregator site... Gamespot has a really good user review area with pie charts and review text...

I think more time should be spent on the predictions league and being able to run crazy queries like comparing game sales histories to each other on graphs over time based on hardware consoles available to sell to and such...

The sales related news is pretty limited on this site. It would be great if more effort was given to post news about things that will effect sales and analyst comments and such.

Also, the predictions league is a great interactive feature. It provides people a way to put up or shut up about their thoughts on sales and creates an ongoing visitation requirement if you want to be in the top predictors...

Also, the forums are where you have the best results I think right now... They are strongly enforced and require most people to be polite at the very least. But, it would also be nice to have a better forum structure that allows you to find forums a bit easier. This would reduce the number of threads and redundancy... (I can't tell you how many threads talked about 40 Gb PS lately... Too many... Same with Halo3 when it was releasing... And Metroid Prime 3, And now Ratchet & Clank review and sales threads are out of control.)

And Finally what about RSS feeds to tell you when forums are updated or new sales data is in?

All would probably add more value then trying to out do other review sites...