I'm happy that the team here at VGChartz is overhauling the site. I've enjoyed seeing VGC evolve over the last 4-5 years.
Focusing on quality is the key point in making something a success. I can tell that in a year or two this very site will be a major player in the video game industry media wheel. Excited to see.
kowenicki said:
So: US Americas Europe Australasia Japan Other Asia Middle east and Africa thats 7... 8? hmm?
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From the hints I think Europe might be split between UK and other Europe.
I look forward to these charts going up today then!
| ioi said: We don't have (and probably won't have for the forseeable future) any direct coverage of markets like Latin America, Asia, Africa or Middle East. We know roughly how big they are but no idea on which games / hardware sells and which doesn't. This is obviously something we are working on long term but the immediate change is to provide better detail on the regions we do track well. This means individual charts for: - USA - Canada - UK - Germany - France - Spain - Italy - Japan And combined extrapolated charts for: - Europe (UK + France + Germany + Spain + Italy extrapolated) - Global (USA + Canada + Europe + Japan extrapolated) So there will be 10 charts in total - 8 direct regional charts and two extrapolated charts (that will clearly have greater margins of error). Those 8 regions represent 79% of total worldwide sales for 2010 so the other 21% will essentially be an (intelligent) extrapolation of the data we have. As we hopefully start to make some inroads with Latin America + Mexico (3.5%), Asia (3.2%), Australia (3%), Middle East and Africa (1.2%) and the rest of Europe (10%) we should be able to start doing weekly charts for them also and obviously including them in the global chart making it more and more accurate. Most of these regions will be heavily PS2 / PSP dominated which will explain why we may have always seemed low (and will continue to for the time being) on global hardware and software sales for those two platforms. |
wow, man I ain´t even mad about charts not being up already after knowing that, haha
Will you also break down software like that??? Prior games to??? Man, seems like a lot of changes.
Just would of hoped for this info to be out there earlier, there are people that can´t sleep without these numbers, but this info explains the delay.
Can´t wait for them chartzzz
| kowenicki said: and not to be too flippant, but given the state of their economies... they might get quite a bit smaller. |
I don´t have numbers, but from a PS3 gamer perspective,I never saw so many Portuguese/Spanish people playing any game, as I am seeing in MW3. I now that is a bad barometer, because MW3 is huge, but that is my experience and I felt like sharing it even if it adds nothing, lol.
| ioi said: We don't have (and probably won't have for the forseeable future) any direct coverage of markets like Latin America, Asia, Africa or Middle East. We know roughly how big they are but no idea on which games / hardware sells and which doesn't. This is obviously something we are working on long term but the immediate change is to provide better detail on the regions we do track well. This means individual charts for: - USA - Canada - UK - Germany - France - Spain - Italy - Japan And combined extrapolated charts for: - Europe (UK + France + Germany + Spain + Italy extrapolated) - Global (USA + Canada + Europe + Japan extrapolated) So there will be 10 charts in total - 8 direct regional charts and two extrapolated charts (that will clearly have greater margins of error). Those 8 regions represent 79% of total worldwide sales for 2010 so the other 21% will essentially be an (intelligent) extrapolation of the data we have. As we hopefully start to make some inroads with Latin America + Mexico (3.5%), Asia (3.2%), Australia (3%), Middle East and Africa (1.2%) and the rest of Europe (10%) we should be able to start doing weekly charts for them also and obviously including them in the global chart making it more and more accurate. Most of these regions will be heavily PS2 / PSP dominated which will explain why we may have always seemed low (and will continue to for the time being) on global hardware and software sales for those two platforms. |
I like this site and The Pack on one of his Pack Attack episodes mentioned VGChartz as a decent and pretty reliable source for sales information that is free to the general public.
I think it is a good decision to concentrate on specific markets where you are able to give good information within reason and I think it should be mentioned in every weekly sales report that your estimates are based on 80% give or take worldwide sales fact and the rest is "intelligent extrapolation" as you mentioned.
Just saying because I am not a great fan of the fact that people always find reason to complain or second guess the numbers you guys obviously work hard on to compile.
I visit this site at least once a day and the best thing is its free and that is greatly appreciated.
Good luck to you and your team and keep up the good work
Great work ioi, can't wait for the changes! ^_^
Oh man those changes sound so awesome! I can't wait to see the charts start coming up later today.
wow good job,looking forward to it,
always thought the charts should be split up a bit to show what is more correct (trackable)
Above & Beyond
| ioi said: Its a good job that you suggested we should focus on having more accurate data, I'm gonna email the team straight away and tell them On a serious note, this weeks data will start to go up tomorrow. I've totally rebuilt our entire database this last week and split everything into 8 different regions, things are taking longer than expected... |
thank you for being so considerate and listening to people's opinions and not ignoring them like what most sales sites do. This is what makes VGC the best video game site on the internet :) Looking foward to see the charts later today :)
Also when the numebrs are up Wii will be above 90M
Buying in 2015: Captain toad: treasure tracker,
mario maker
new 3ds
yoshi woolly world
zelda U
majora's mask 3d
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