Video Games Sales Data Analysis

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How I Approached the Project

• Importation of the data and libraries
• Preprocessed the data
• Analyzed the data
• Created user profile for each region
• Formulated and tested statistical hypotheses
• General conclusion

Number of Games Released in a Year

The number of games released in a year peaked in 2008 and significantly started falling from 2010.

Profitable and Non-profitable Platforms.

The PS2 platform is the most profitable plaform, the PCFX platform is the least non profitable plaform.

General Findings

• Before 1994, there was no year that more than 100 games were released. However, from 1994 to 2016, more than 100 games have been released every year.
• PS, PS2, and Nintendo DS used to be popular platforms but now have zero sales.
• Generally, it takes about a year or less for new platforms to appear. On average, old plaforms take about 8 years to fade.
• Atari 2600 platform existed for the longest number of years (35 years)
• Since 2010, the most profitable platforms are PS3, 3DS, DS, PC, PS4, Wii, X360, and XOne. In sum total, PS3 and X360 are leading in sales.
• In 2016, all plaforms had experienced their peak sales and started shrinking, but PS4, XOne, and 3DS were leading in sales.
• Since 2010, average sales on various platforms differed but not significantly different especially among the highest performing plaforms as average sales were all below $1 million. PS4 had the highest average sales of about $0.80 million, and GBA platform had about $0.05 million sales (the lowest).
• There is positive correlation between review of plaforms and sale of games.
• Generally, from 2010, Action genres have been the most profitable considering sum of total yearly sales. However,on average, the most profitable genre is Shooter. The least profitable game genre is Puzzle.
• PS3 and X360 platforms dominate sales in Europe and North American markets.
• Nintendo 3DS and PS3 dominates market share in Japan.
• PS3 platform is at least among top two dominant market share of games across Europe, North America, and Japan.
• Action and Shooter genres are dominating the market share of sales in Europe and North America while Role_Playing and Action dominates in Japan.
• Action genre is at least among the top two dominating genres across the three regions.
• ESRB ratings affect sales in individual regions.
• Average user ratings of the Xbox One and PC platforms are the same.
• Average user ratings for Action and Sports genres are different.

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