Awesomeness. Still miss the launch aligned LTD sales graph though.

That's very good news! Thanks ioi and friends!

I quote Tychus Findley.

"Hell, it's about time."

Great! Now we just need people to make interesting sales Freds.

I personally don't think we should be thanking anyone considering we should have had this a long time ago. Thanking ioi for a feature that was considered standard in the past is crazy. It's not like we got something special. That's like praising a child-abuser for ceasing his abuse. We should not be praising the normal & acceptable things he's doing now. We should still scorn him for the bad things he's done in the past. All I'm saying is don't confuse the normal with the special just because things were worse.

When you people mention the "database" still missing, which tools/information exactly are you referencing?

Glad to see the charts back. =)

Software:
- Top 200 charts weekly for Japan/Americas/Others and a combined global.
- Top 1000 games for the yearly charts in the 3 major regions + global
- Software sales for PS2/GC/XB and GBA in all regions (though coverage was quite scetchy in Americas and poor in Europe, it was better than nothing and it was slowly improving)
- Some software sales for Japan going back to SNES launch (probably just copied from old Famitsu's or something, and only limited titles as you went further back in the past, but again better than nothing)
- The ability to order all the charts by platform and publisher and view a top 50 (which means you could view weekly sales of some games not in the top 200 as long as they fit into "top 50 EA Sports PS3" or something)

Hardware:
- PS2/GC/XB/GBA hardware data for the 3 major regions + global total... as well as a page for 10 regions of the 'Others' section (UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, BeNeLux, Scandanavia, 'other Europe', Australia and 'other'... the last of which was commonly known as "other other" and included a number of small markets like S.Africa and some non-Japan countries in East Asia)
- Lots of old platform sales data for Japan going back to I think 1989, so it included SNES, MegaDrive, DC, Saturn, GameBoy, PS1, N64 and a few lesser knowns such as the PS-Pocket and Wonderswans.

Now while a lot of the smaller regions were not actually physically tracked in any way (US/UK/Japan etc sales are extrapolated from sales data ioi gets from various small stores in those countries, wheras he doesn't get weekly data from most of the smaller regions and merely estimates it based on the habits of neighboring countries, population and the occasional hard data such as a GfK report on Polish sales or something) It didn't mean the data was useless, even if it wasn't reliable it was still interesting to see.

LOL, you too?   

Why did they take them off in the first place.

I cant see them on my phone, but as soon as I get on a computer.. Theres a lot I wanna see.