[casual_games] Game-Sales-Charts.com is now CasualCharts.com

[STEVE FERNANDEZ]

We are not likely to see that kind of information shared for competitive reasons.  But, that's not to say IGDA or CGA couldn't aggregate numbers from some top portals and add that to the next State of the Industry Report.

It would also be advantageous to the developer community if one of those organizations would also give insight into traffic numbers via comScore or Nielsen.

You've got a great question:  Is the industry really growing or are the numbers just getting pushed around.

Here's another one:  Is online purchasing beginning to cannibalize into retail sales potential? 

It would be very interesting to see if there are any correlations between any trends in online traffic or sales compared with retail sales.

Are either of you organizations up to helping us developers figure some of this out?

-sf


-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Nicolás Vinacur
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:35 AM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Game-Sales-Charts.com is now CasualCharts.com

It would be nice to see something like the amount of the top 10 sold 
along the last years, in order to be able to see the state of the whole 
industry. Or at least, if this is not possible, the amount of units 
being sold by each portal so we can know if the industry is getting 
better or worse in absolute parameters in stead of seeing the relative 
vision. Moreover, it would be nice if it is not possible to disclose 
that kind of information, just to see a graph with no units :) Greets

                                                                         
                                             Nicolas

James C. Smith escribió:

> Since some of you are desperate to start a conversation on this list I will

> gave you a topic.

>

> Game-Sales-Charts.com is now known as www.CasualCharts.com

>

> Discuss

>

>

>

> CasualCharts.com has all the same great "top 10" list aggregation and

> analysis tools that were always on the Game-Sales-Charts.com. (see the link

> to Legacy Charts in the nav bar).  But there is now a whole new breed of

> more customizable and interactive charts.  I hope you find them as fun an

> interesting as I do. (and maybe some of you even find them useful)

>

> James C. Smith

> Producer: Reflexive Entertainment

> Editor: CasualCharts.com

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