Published 2016
| Version v3
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.
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 |
Details
| Resource type | Open dataset |
| Title | Video Game Sales |
| Creators |
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| Publisher | Kaggle |
| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Research fields | Business Administration Psychology Sociology Political Science Economic & Social History Communication Sciences Educational Research Other |
| Size | 1.36 MB |
| Formats | Comma-separated values (CSV) (.csv) |
| External resource | https://www.kaggle.com/gregorut/videogamesales |
Additional details
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