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I think the chart looks much better now that the text is centered, and removing that column did help a little. Now maybe the only problem is it is getting so long, it is hard to remember what each column is for after you scroll down. Maybe put the title before each platform, especially if you continue to add games.

As for the updates Great job for Forza, having the biggest increase in sales so far, even if that is partly because of the bundle. The 360 having the game with the biggest increase, and the PS3 with the game with the biggest decrease just goes to show, how much better the 360 is doing software sales wise. It is very impressive.

For the predictions, I think all of them are currently are a little high, especially GT5, no way it will break 11 million. I also don't think there is a chance for FFXIII to break 9 million even if it is multiplat, but we'll see.



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I think having only a few PS3 and Xbox 360 games skews your results. I don't think you should include say GT5P vs GT4P as there were comepletely different circumstances to its release.



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Squilliam said:
I think having only a few PS3 and Xbox 360 games skews your results. I don't think you should include say GT5P vs GT4P as there were comepletely different circumstances to its release.

I agree, and the numbers will definitely continue to change as I add in more games.  That said I'm already having a hard time coming up with new ones, especially for the Xbox.  The only other game I could come up with is Ninja Gaiden-Ninja Gaiden 2, but we only have Japanese sales for Ninja Gaiden.  If you have any suggestions for other games to add on PS3 or 360 that would be a big help.  For GTP, what are the different circumstances?  Someone pointed out that GT4 didn't release in America, and I accounted for that by, not counting America's sales for GT5P, and subtracting the American base from each consoles when coming up with the % change in user base.  If there is some additional differences between the two release let me know, and I'll take it out.



Well how about the EA sports series? Need for Speed? Call of Duty 1 released on the PS2 and Xbox 1. Devil May Cry? Soul Calibur?



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I was trying to keep it to exclusives in the console section, Devil May Cry, and Sould Calibur are in the multiplat section already. But maybe for those I will add to the console section to just compare x-box to 360, PS2-PS3. I've been wanting to add the EA sports series, need for speed, call of Duty, but the problem I'm having with that is the PS2 is still getting versions of these games. So using those on the PS2-PS3, becomes more about comparing how two current games compare, instead of how franchises are doing after they move over to current gen consoles. Still, maybe I can at least compare those franchises on Xbox-XB360



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Figure for GT5:P there is incorrect, surely?



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The GT5:P numbers subtract the American sales because GT4 wasn't released in America, and I was trying to make a more fair comparison. I might remove the game from the chart, if I can find more titles to add to the PS2-PS3 section.



OP updated again, now each platform has the same number of games (6) so that, one game won't skew platform totals more than the other consoles. I'm going to add new games daily, when I get to 10 on each platform, I will rotate between adding new games and updating the numbers with the updated sales figures.

With today's update Mario and Luigi has been added to the chart, and is the first DS game to see a decrease in sales from the GBA. This will probably change after M & L 3 is released worldwide, but for now it is # 4 on the biggest losers list, knocking Metroid Prime off.



You update this thread a lot. I like the new poll feature. I voted for God of War III, I think it will do well, but it is not the huge hit some people think it will be. I also think the GT5 and FFXIII predictions are too high. I'm not really sure what I expect Pikmin 3 or Golden Sun 3 to do.



Just posted the daily update. Each platform now has 7 games listed for it. I also rearranged the posts a little bit. It seems that this thread is getting a decent number of views but not many comments. I think the stuff at the top will now catch more peoples attention.