NintendoPie said:
I was lurking for at least a month before I signed up, they toke the charts down around a week before I joined. That's the main reason I signed up too, sadly it's all gone. :'( |
In late 2007 and 2008, we could view top 200 game charts for Americas, Japan and Others regions (and combined global) but they could also be sorted by publisher and/or platform to view a top 50, so if you chose publisher:Nintendo and platform: Wii you would be able to view all the tracked games Nintendo published on the Wii. There were also monthly charts at some points that were the same as the weekly ones in functionality, and a yearly top 200 for each region (can't recall if that could ever be sorted)
There was also an 'Others' region hardware breakdown each week, which gave hardware sales for all the regions incorporated into 'Other'... those being UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Scandanavia, Other Europe, Australia and Other (the final other was usually referred to as 'Other Other' by the forum, and was an estimate of sales in places like South Africa, Korea, China India etc)
More importantly than that though we were able to make graphs comparing hardware sales... the graphs could be created for up to 3 platforms in any of the regions I mentioned above, and for any time period from just 2 weeks to about 8 years (I think 400 weeks was the max, which is a little short of 8 years) so for example PS3 in Germany could be compared with Wii in Spain and PSP in Japan, all on the same graph. The platforms you could choose also included PS2/GC/XB too, and for Japan extended further back to about 1990.
In addition there were the 'sales from launch' graphs which could be created in the same way as above, with the same kind of options except the time period is not fixed to the calendar, but to the console launch... for example comparing Wii to GC sales in 2008 was possible with the above graphs, but kind of pointless as the GC was dead so it would show no sales line... but the sales from launch graphs would align the launches of the GC and Wii as if they launched on the same date.
Later on (may have been during VGC 2.0) there was also a graph tool for comparing game sales, so for example it was possible to compare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [X360] with CoD:MW [PS3] as well as New Super Mario Bros Wii on the same graph.
If you were only lurking for a month before you joined then you haven't seen any of the good stuff in terms of sales features... in fact just before the charts stopped updating for a couple of weeks in November was probably the worst time of all for sales info on VGC (well obviously not getting any in late November for a couple of weeks was the worst, but that was due to the restructuring, wheras early November was an intentional bleak point) In fact if you started visiting in mid October then the website has only got better since then, as we now have a USA chart (before it was always the whole Americas) and UK/GE/FR charts (we used to have just hardware for those regions, and game sales were combined into 'others')
