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kopstudent89 said:
spurgeonryan said:
kopstudent89 said:
Finally!! Thanks a lot ioi!

But I used to like the feature where you can choose the top 50 Wii games or PS3 games of a certain year. That way it shows only the console of choice? Will we have that back?

Can we not do that? Just go in there and click console of choice, and top sales. Or are you talking about something else?


Not for a specific year. For instance if you wanna find out how many Wii games sold more than a 100k in 2011 alone in Japan. I ment for a specific year, that way you can directly compare the biggest sellers between different consoles. I do that  :P

Well the chartz show TOP100 for all consoles combined.

And look what I found...

Forza Motorsport 4 (X360): 1,888,291
Gran Turismo 5 (PS3): 1,800,512

The old GT5 almost sold the same the new Forza 4 last year .

Yeah... this time I couldn't resist.



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As if we needed more proof that Brett rules this planet. Thanks my man!



 

 

I loved the new sales data in GamrReview/Sales page...

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/7678/gran-turismo-5/Global/

Breakdown by county too... EPIC WIN.



ethomaz said:
kopstudent89 said:
spurgeonryan said:
kopstudent89 said:
Finally!! Thanks a lot ioi!

But I used to like the feature where you can choose the top 50 Wii games or PS3 games of a certain year. That way it shows only the console of choice? Will we have that back?

Can we not do that? Just go in there and click console of choice, and top sales. Or are you talking about something else?


Not for a specific year. For instance if you wanna find out how many Wii games sold more than a 100k in 2011 alone in Japan. I ment for a specific year, that way you can directly compare the biggest sellers between different consoles. I do that  :P

Well the chartz show TOP100 for all consoles combined.

And look what I found...

Forza Motorsport 4 (X360): 1,888,291
Gran Turismo 5 (PS3): 1,800,512

The old GT5 almost sold the same the new Forza 4 last year .

Yeah... this time I couldn't resist.

Nor should you, it's common fact GT sells more than Forza.

This site must be SQL databases crazy with all these numbers...



Salnax said:
kitler53 said:
link? i want to make sure i'm looking in the same spot as everyone else...


http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2011/Global/


thanks!



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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I can't live without yearly numbers, I had to go through all the million-sellers of all the platforms to make the 2011 top x_x



To the thread topic: neat, nice to have it back.

To the new Game DB layout/sales info: Totally awesomesauce! I like the look, nice and clean but still with lots of sales info.

To ioi and future changes: Put the console sales graphs back and I'll find out where you live and come give you a hug, or maybe buy a t-shirt from gamrprint.

Also, depending on if there is going to be a change soon, it would be nice to have a little drop down menu under the VGChartz tab at the top of every page... like it does for the other sections, with a few important links (to the current weekly charts by region, and the chart index) That way we can get to those important pages from the forums etc.
Of course if things are going to be changing drastically in the next week or so that would render that defunct then there is no point, but from my limited experience of developing I wouldn't think it was a big job to add in.



Oh man these changes are beautiful! I love the sales breakdown for every game.

Thanks for your hard work ioi and team



ioi said:
TWRoO said:

To ioi and future changes: Put the console sales graphs back and I'll find out where you live and come give you a hug, or maybe buy a t-shirt from gamrprint.

You mean the hardware comparison graph?

 

The major reason I was hardly here during most of 2010 and 2011 is because they dissapeared, I vaguely remember there was some promise of improved graph features when the old graphs were taken down even before VGC3.0, I didn't really understand why the old ones were taken down in the meantime but when the neat graphs for game sales were added I thought the hardware return (and improvement) was just around the corner.

Perhaps you intend graphing features to only be available on VGC Pro, which I can understand certainly for games as VGCPro is apparently meant for developers and investors etc, but unless you expect the big 3 themselves to be interested in VGC Pro I don't think investors/publishers/devs are particularly bothered about hardware figures except for general trends that can be easily followed by looking at the weekly numbers anyway.

TBH I'd actually be satiated with being able to graph a single consoles weekly sales in the 3 major regions NA, EU and Other.  (or 4, not really sure what to do with Japan myself, as it's definately an important market but it's comparatively small nowadays).
If it returned like it was at the end of VGC1.0s life then I would actually hold my promise and buy a t-shirt (having a tough time deciding between Mario, Zelda and Portal though)
 ie: the ability to compare 3 different sales lines (EU PS3 vs. UK Wii vs. AU DS for example, even though that would be a useless comparison in itself) for both weekly sales as well as from launch, and control the start and end dates like we used to.

If you can improve on the old system (more sales lines at once, more intuitive system) then I'll probably be back here like I used to be (though I have been quite active these last few months) especially as with the 3DS and Vita there is something new and exciting to compare with the graphs.



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