What is Gamewise...

[theRepublic]

ioi said:

So we have two different systems, and the user to game following system is different in both cases. Here, you add a certain sku to your collection (even going as far as chosing which regional boxart you want) which was the right idea when we developed it and worked well. On Gamewise, tracking a game is a different thing - if I track Crysis 3 I am joining a group with everyone else tracking that game - regardless of whether I am getting it on PS3, 360 or PC. I am a Crysis 3 fan rather than a PS3 fan. Platforms aren't significant on Gamewise. We are encouraging the game profile image to be a generic box shot of the game like Wikipedia and other wiki sites use instead of a platform-specific version. When you follow a game (or indeed a person, franchise, character etc), you will be notified (via your dashboard feed) when someone edits that entity in some way (i.e adds a new section - Weapons - with a list of available weapons, or adds a new release date etc) and you will also be notified when someone adds a discussion item / article or review relating to that entity.

So, as I keep trying to point out, Gamewise and VGChartz are very different things. Gamewise is doing a lot of things that have never been done on a gaming site before but I do believe that it is the future. It will feel less like a traditional gaming website - there won't be the usual news, videos, games and forums sections like every site has copied from IGN / Gamespot (1up, GamePro, Gamesradar, Jeuxvideo, Eurogamer, Videogamer, Nowgamer etc) - we are trying to do something different. One of the many roles of Gamewise will be as a news aggregator (far more effectively than N4G, Digg etc) and on this front we will be partnering with a number of gaming blogs to pull in and syndicate their news. We will also be working with other specialist gaming sites to syndicate their content so the idea of keeping Gamewise and VGChartz linked so that doing stuff on Gamewise adds points on VGChartz just wouldn't work - we don't want Gamewise to be an extension of VGChartz but to be a stand-alone site.

If the two systems are designed to serve fundamentally different purposes, then why get rid of one?  You just said yourself that the Gamewise game tracking system will not work as a collection catalog.

How does developing a new tracking system on a separate website justify getting rid of a different feature with a different purpose on this site?