gamrConnect Most Wanted: October 2014 Results!

[JEMC]

Fist of all, thanks for the great job. With Salnax not being able to do it, it's good to see someone making a step forward to do it and doing it so well.

About your analysis (because I do read them), I agree that Nintendo will lose some points but I'm not that convinced that PS4/Sony will gain them. The way Nintendo gamers work, they will probably either not vote (so PS4 will gain % but not actual votes) or simply vote for another Nintendo game (ie. instead of voting for Smash, vote for Splatoon). The XboxOne will have a bigger drop.

Oh, and as you said, it's weird to see some games disappear from one month to another.

 

As for suggestions:

+ I like Slarvax's idea of telling which genre dominates each console, but a small table with the consoles and genres, with a % would be more revealing.

+ Colous. I had this discussion with Salnax too when he did it, but I think you should change some colours. Blue tones for Nintendo consoles are ok, and greens for Xbox are ok too (although I don't like that brown on MSoft's published games, specially because its for games on 3 platforms but since they only have 1 vote you could list just the voted platform), but I'll have to make a claim for Sony, PC and Multiplatform games.

I'm sorry but PC games can't be in grey. Grey is a 'meh' colour, it is undefined, the best example of the result of a mix of two colours and therefore it should be the colour for multiplatform games. With multis being grey you can use orange for Sony console games, after all orange and red melt together much better than yellow and red, and use yellow for PC games.

+Graphs. No problem with Points per platform, but with the other two it could be better for us to read it (and possibly for you to make it) if you limit the inputs to 10. For example, in the "Points per Platform" graph only 8 publishers (until Atlus) have >2% of points, and you even have an others section. Limiting it to 10 inputs would have much of an impact:

Or alternatively, you could make a sub-graph to include which are those others:

And the same is true with the Points per Genre graph.

 

Just my 2cents .