Quantumn-Tarantino already has a top selling games of 2007 done. I didn't want to just re-do his list. Feel free to look at it.
My point on this chart was to cross-refference his list(s), to show how 1st week openings do and do not affect total gross sales.
For instance, Wii Play. It had a mediocre start, but continues to sell well. Likewise, Guitar Hero 2 had a great opening, and a great start. This is in contrast to games such as God of War 2, and Lost Planet. GoW2 has barely achieved a 2.1 multiplier, and Lost Planet is *just* at 3, despite having a 450k first month.
Not only this, I'm going to work on opening week multipliers for weeks 5, 10 and lifetime, so one we can start actually being able to predict total sales for various games. In Japan, we can reasonably predict RPGs (1.5~2.1x from launch week), but outside of that, we have no true data.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
