I am interested in doing some research into the performance of a good spectrum of games across this console generation.
I want to use the vgchartz data to get a proper idea on how games have performed to properly understand this generation. There are always alot of opinions thrown around and often backed up by one or two game examples, but hardly ever do we look at concrete data across a good spectrum. Is this because often there is not enough information available or must we just build it?
The reason I am doing this planning thread is to get
1. a list of the games people would be interested in
2. conditions which to examine the data on
Currently I am planning to look at the following conditions:
- total sales
- sales period
- gameranking and metaranking
- previous title
- console sales at start and throughout
- identify sales pattern (front loaded, destributed, ever green)
- comparitive games (example Madworld to GodHand)
- successfull/unsuccessful/borderline
Obviously this will be a large undertaking so I will decide an initial anlysis deadline and then let it grow. But all help and suggestions would be appreciated, thanks ;)
