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Burning Ranger

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"Need help regarding video game sales info" , posted Thu 25 Sep 20:12

Hi! Does anyone know of any reports or trade groups that do reports on top selling video games in the US? I plan on doing a resarch project for one my of my graduate classes that will analyze the portrayal of female characters in top selling video games. Unfortunately, I need some kind of authority to tell me what games are top selling. Can anyone help me find a report or a group that compiles these demographics?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Advanced Cyborg E. Branger AKA Burning Ranger

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OYashiroForever

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"Re(1):Need help regarding video game sales in" , posted Thu 25 Sep 20:28

quote:
Hi! Does anyone know of any reports or trade groups that do reports on top selling video games in the US? I plan on doing a resarch project for one my of my graduate classes that will analyze the portrayal of female characters in top selling video games. Unfortunately, I need some kind of authority to tell me what games are top selling. Can anyone help me find a report or a group that compiles these demographics?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I wish I could help you... frankly, I've been trying to find this kind of info myself for quite a while but have had no luck.

The best I can offer is Magicbox now has a list of all the games that have sold a million copies in the US (plus a small group of honorable mentions...).

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the universe and human stupidity

and I'm not sure about the former."

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I see through you."

DarkZero

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"Re(2):Need help regarding video game sales in" , posted Thu 25 Sep 21:09

It continues to amaze me that even though every English language video game board receives a question like this at least once a week, with sites like Slashdot Games getting many, many more of them each week, no one has compiled this information into a site yet. If someone actually did this, it would become as ubiquitous as GameFAQs, but yet, it is not done.

I'm sorry, I cannot help you. But hopefully some day someone will come along and help us (and by "us", I mean "the gamers of planet Earth") by making this information available in a reasonable manner.

Oroch

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"Re(3):Need help regarding video game sales in" , posted Fri 26 Sep 03:01:

quote:
It continues to amaze me that even though every English language video game board receives a question like this at least once a week, with sites like Slashdot Games getting many, many more of them each week, no one has compiled this information into a site yet. If someone actually did this, it would become as ubiquitous as GameFAQs, but yet, it is not done.

I'm sorry, I cannot help you. But hopefully some day someone will come along and help us (and by "us", I mean "the gamers of planet Earth") by making this information available in a reasonable manner.

i remember reading some articles on gamasutra about this, check their backlogs

but truthfully the only place you're gonna get hard data from is the publishers and they have a tendency to add extra zeros to the end of numbers