The future of VG Chartz, what does the site mean to you?

[Gamerace]

Whew! Read most of this thread, now my brain is a little numb. Irregardless here's my two cents:

Stay sales focused

Reviews only if metacritic style and/or user reviews. For user reviews allow people to vote (Was this helpful?) so good reviews are on top and any fayboyism crap or poorly written ones are on the bottom.

News articles should all have a sales focus. Interviews with industry people would be great if they have a sales slant as well.

There's a couple things boxofficemojo.com does for movies that I'd like to see here.

- They give charts comparing sales of similar properties. IE: Spider-man 1 vs 2 vs 3, or Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter vs Narnia with a daily and weekly breakdown. Obivously you can't do daily but weekly/monthly sure. These are fun and interesting to see and keep people coming back to see how MGS4 (for example) compares to MGS2 and 3 in sales week after week.

- They have someone give a prediction for sales of that weeks movie releases with well thought out reasons for why. They also post actual results after the weekend and their interpretations as to why the movies did how they did. Gives useful insight into why a movie you thought would do good hasn't or vise versa. I think this would be useful on this site cause we're always seeing threads that amount to" Niche title X only sold X #'s 1st week - why?" without the posters seeming to understand it's a niche title or whatever and what it's sales should look like.

- They also give movie budgets when possible. This is insightful when determining if a movie was actually successful. Often small movies are more profitable than blockbusters but you wouldn't think so without seeing the costs involved compared to sales. I realize that info isn't exactly shared, and they struggle with it to, but it's nice when available or reasonably estimated. This would be great for discussion on games like Zack & Wiki and Stranglehold.

Otherwise I like your idea of groups of something. In particular I'd like to be able to easily find other users with the same game and share friendcodes/gamertags/whatever plus most likely time on, etc to simplify the process as much as possible 'cause I'd really like to beat half the forum members to a pulp when SSBB launches.

Lastly happy to help (especially if there's pay) with any of this stuff. PM me if you like a resume or such.

Great job with the site so far. The data and the forum are both excellent and keep me coming back almost compulsively.