Published 2016 | Version v3
Open dataset Metadata-only

Video Game Sales

Creators

Description

Description

The VGChartz Video‑Game Sales dataset lists every video game that has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide, compiled by scraping vgchartz.com (16,598 records). For each title it provides the rank, name, platform, release year, genre, publisher, and regional sales figures (North America, EU, Japan, Other) as well as total global sales (all in millions), enabling quantitative analysis of market trends across platforms and regions.

 

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title Video Game Sales
Creators
  • Smith, Gregory
    • Publisher Kaggle
    Year of publication 2016
    External resource https://www.kaggle.com/gregorut/videogamesales
    Size 1.36 MB
    Formats Comma-separated values (CSV) (.csv)
    Related works
    Is cited by
    Journal article: 10.21533/PEN.V7I2.484 (DOI)
    Journal article: 10.2139/ssrn.4382007 (DOI)
    Journal article: 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2015.06.006 (DOI)
    Journal article: 10.1093/icc/dtaa030 (DOI)
    Journal article: 10.3138/sim.3.4.002 (DOI)

    Variables

    Name Description
    rank Ranking of overall sales
    name The games name
    platform Platform of the games release (i.e. PC,PS4, etc.)
    year Year of the game's release
    genre Genre of the game
    publisher Publisher of the game
    NA_Sales Sales in North America (in millions)
    EU_Sales Sales in Europe (in millions)
    JP_Sales Sales in Japan (in millions)
    Other_Sales Sales in the rest of the world (in millions)
    Global_Sales Total worldwide sales