| trunkswd said:
We do add official software figures from publishers and developers, but only the most recent ones pop up on the front page. There are a ton of software sales figures, but you have to go to the GameDB and search for what you are looking for. You can select specific platforms, developers, publishers, etc. Ie. here are the top selling NS games https://www.vgchartz.com/games/games.php?console=NS Maybe a page similar to the old Weekly/Yearly charts when we used to do our own software estimates could work (https://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2018/Global/). So any software figures that are added in a given month can appear in a list with the ability to easily swap to other months. Plus have that months hardware figures on the side. A dedicated page for each console is a cool idea. Perhaps have it show the hardware sales on a graph/chart that shows lifetime sales overtime (whether its our estimates or official shipment figures when available), as well as a list of the best-selling games for said console. At the moment Bandorr is the one coder on the team, but he is a volunteer. We don't have the money to pay a coder to do any major overhaul of the site. As far as changing the site name or a rebrand. That isn't happening unless we get a new owner. I'd be in favor of a rebrand to say VGCharts (drop the Z in favor of an S) and a new logo that is a simplified version of the current one. |
Well… I guess I’m gonna have to learn how to code. Bandorr can’t be working alone, o/w there’s no way this site can survive. Also, about the current owner, another change I’ve had in mind is to (somehow) create a new site separate from VGChartz. Once the site is ready, with the new name and all the changes implemented, that’s when the rebranding would occur. It needs to all happen at once; don’t want to risk a slow transition carrying a poor rep into the new site.
I’ll have to come up with some sketched of what I’m specifically envisioning for these dedicated consoles pages. I’m looking for something almost to the level of a repository of *everything* a person would want to know pertaining to commercial figures of a gaming system, all confined to *one* single page. Sorts like a Wikipedia page. Have a section detailing revenue, another section listing all the insider estimates, provides charts and graphs for all these figures, etc. It’d be a task too big for Bandorr alone to juggle, so I’ll have to get to work on coding someday soon… I do have experience with college-level coding coursework under my belt (plus, I’d imagine AI could be of some use). I’m also a graduate student in mathematics, which goes hand-in-hand with coding from what I’m aware.
