First off great site.
As far as additional content, the more the merrier. with a caveat. It needs to be sales related. Roundtable discussion, developer interviews, and game previews are good if they have sales stuff in them. If not let the thousands of other sites fight over it.
As far as improving numbers, I am sure you are doing all you can. One thing that would be great is improving numbers for older titles. Companies may be tight lipped about current gen, but what do they have to lose telling sales for 10 year old games. Even if companies are secretive old earning statements are archived somewhere. Once every one of the 8500 games has a sales history then we can really crunch some numbers.
A partnership with Gamerankings would be good as long as they added your sales numbers in return.
Also please oh please make the news section easier to work with. When I click to read more I just get a page with all the news crammed together. It should link to a dedicated page that has articles grouped. There should be a search feature. Japanese Prelim, Japanese First Day, NPD comparison and so on could all have there own heading. That way if there is one I like I can easily get at all the similar articles. Admittedly there would be a lot of noncatagoriezed stuff but there are many regular articles. Also a page/ blog featuring all of the content from The Source. He puts out much more analysis than big industry guys and we should be featuring him.
The game database could and should include games that aren't out yet but just set it up to reset the comments and the use rating the day the game is released. Hotlinks to other games in the series and the title on other platforms would also be useful.
Also a mod or someone who you deem to fairly even handed could write a primer for people new to this sales data. It could explain holiday effects on sales, relative size of the different markets, price drops, previous console war winners etc. It could also cover current trends. This would have greatly helped last month. People were all assuming Japnease sales were gone for good and a Tsunami must have killed all the gamers. Part of it was the casual trend but another part is the November slow down that happens every year in Japan. There is a lot of info that regular users take for granted that would satify many newcomers curiosity.
Final* Word on Game Delays:
The game will not be any better or include more content then planned. Any commnets that say so are just PR hogwash to make you feel better for having to wait.
Delays are due to lack of proper resources, skill, or adequate planning by the developer.
Do be thankful that they have enough respect for you to delay the game and maintain its intended level of quality.
*naznatips is exempt
