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TomaTito on 25 January 2015

Thanks to all who participated in the poll and post votes! It's been much better than last year's 7th gen ratios, although we had some rough beginnings with the Xbox they pulled through and made some votes. I've updated the OP of all the individual poll threads with a comparison between the post votes and the anonymous poll votes. (Links: 3DS, PS Vita, PS4, WiiU, XBox One)

Maximum post votes were obtained by Nintendo WiiU (29) and 3DS (21), Sony got PS4 (13), Vita (11) and Microsoft Xbox One (9). Meanwhile in the polls the quantities were a little higher: WiiU (138), PS4 (65), 3DS (64), Xbox One (40) and PS Vita (27).

When putting these poll votes all together, we get these Chartz: 

Polls and results from:
3DS, PS Vita, PS4, WiiU, XBox One

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Previous ratio polls:
VGCz 7th gen first-to-third party ratios

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I'm not going to put my conclusions right now, but let these histograms do the talking.



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LipeJJ on 25 January 2015

Looks like the PS4 is the most balanced system so far. This is a great scenario for both Sony and third parties.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 25 January 2015

Yea, the graph isn't very surprising and it makes sense really



                  

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celador on 26 January 2015

Wii U dominant at the high end as you would expect.

Not much to shout about outside of first party releases on that system after all



TomaTito on 26 January 2015

It will be interesting to see how things evolve for PS4 and Xbox One.
Not sure if I want to redo the polls during the summer or wait till next year.

Now the WiiU, the votes show a bimodal distribution. That happens when two sets with different distributions are combined. In this case it looks like Nintendo users who buy 50-50 titles (common during the Wii generation) and those who mostly buy 1st party titles.

I'll also repost what I put in the WiiU thread:

I have more VGChartz data for Nintendo's home console from previous poll votes of the Wii era:

Wii 2010 to 2013 already saw a slight shift towards first party, nevertheless the VGChartz collection was still mainly 50-50. In 2014 WiiU's result had its maximum ratio in the 60-80 range; one year later (and with less third party releases) it's become a bimodal distribution between the 50-50 and the 1st party camps.

It will be interesting to see the further shift towards 1st party in next years poll



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RCTjunkie on 26 January 2015

Actual statistics, data collection, and analysis with an open thread for discussion regarding the sales.

It's almost like you would think this is a website geared towards data tracking of video game sales.

But seriously, thank you for your efforts, OP. This is a very telling graph and I can't wait to see what other users think.



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TomaTito on 26 January 2015
RCTjunkie said:
Actual statistics, data collection, and analysis with an open thread for discussion regarding the sales.

It's almost like you would think this is a website geared towards data tracking of video game sales.

But seriously, thank you for your efforts, OP. This is a very telling graph and I can't wait to see what other users think.

Thanks RCTjunkie. Let's see if it spurs more discussions, although the results are also evident and not controversial enough!



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generic-user-1 on 26 January 2015

is mister i-buy-every-crappy-game-that-comes-out-on-the-wiiu in the data?



TomaTito on 26 January 2015

^ Jejeje, I can't say for sure if he is in the poll, but he didn't make a post.



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