Video Game Sales This dataset contains data on 16720 games released from the 80s up until 2016.

Data Source Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sidtwr/videogames-sales-dataset/data

#Load the data
gameSales <- read.csv("Video_Games_Sales_as_at_22_Dec_2016.csv")
#Remove all rows with NA values
gameSales <- na.omit(gameSales)

Major Observations

• Ratings: A majority of the games seem to be between 80 and 100 Metacritic score.

• Sales: Games with higher sales mostly have high ratings, suggesting that there is a relation between high ratings and sales.

• Release Year: Some of the highest sales are in the later years, which is interesting as the Xbox One and PS4 both launched in 2013.

gameSales2 %>%
  group_by(Platform) %>%
  summarise(
    Count = n(),
    Mean_US = round(mean(NA_Sales),3),
    Mean_EU = round(mean(EU_Sales),3),
    Mean_JP = round(mean(JP_Sales),3),
    Mean_Global = round(mean(Global_Sales),3),
    Mean_Critic = round(mean(Critic_Score),3)
  )

## # A tibble: 2 × 7
##   Platform Count Mean_US Mean_EU Mean_JP Mean_Global Mean_Critic
##   <chr>    <int>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>       <dbl>       <dbl>
## 1 PS3        790   0.437   0.35    0.07         1.00        70.8
## 2 X360       881   0.613   0.269   0.012        0.98        69.0

Key Points:

-Data Size: The Xbox has nearly 100 more entries than the PS3, although this does not seem to have a large effect on the means.

-US Sales: The Xbox has a higher sale count than the PS3 by about 200,000 sales, this is probably because the Xbox had a stronger presence in the US.

-JP Sales: In no surprise to me, the PS3 has a much higher game sale count, as it’s a much more popular console in Japan compared to the Xbox.

-Critics: Both consoles’ ratings hover around a 70 rating on Metacritic, showing that the game quality is about the same on average between consoles.