Video Game Sales Wiki:Things to do
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[edit] Continuous things to do
- seek out new contributors
- update 2008 and other yearly articles
- Add commentary for each NPD (any surprises, sales bumps, price cuts, big releases, record sales?)
- Work on previous generations and past consoles
- Create graphs and diagrams for various things
- Dig up data for past Media Create sales reports and create monthly articles for them (see MC:April 2008)
- Dig up the data for past monthly NPD sales reports and create articles for them
- Add current news to Template:In the news
- Add wiki links to Special:Deadendpages and links pointing to orphaned pages. Check Special:DoubleRedirects.
- Update Upcoming games
- add references, change [1] these links to use the <ref></ref> format
- expand Category:Stubs
- Check Category:Todo for more things to do
[edit] Specific things to do
- Create articles for perennial arguments and debates (pros and cons)
- Third party games and the Wii
- PS3 is a "failure"
- when systems reach certain milestones (5 million after 1 year, 30 million after 3 years... etc) (graphs)
- too fragmented, consolidate articles
- 10 deals that changed the industry
- comparison of seventh gen sales with sixth gen sales at same point in time
- Game piracy - add summary, commentary
- Lawsuits in the video game industry [2][3], silicon knights vs epic over unreal engine, others
- [4], hot coffee, tecmo vs employees, [5] [6]
- summary and commentary for any yearly article (e.g. Media Create 2007 in review, chart track in review, Fiscal years)
- IPhone - add summary, sales data
- price cuts - convert sixth generation into tables. add references
[edit] Things to update regularly
- Make sure Best selling games (seventh generation), and Wii, PS3, X360 match up
- Transfer/update relevant data from wiki:best selling games and wiki:seventh generation and wiki: console wars
- New NPD month (every month)
- online spreadsheet
- NPD 2009 in review (update monthly)
- 2009 in video games (update every 3 months e.g. April, July, October)
- NPD Seventh generation (update every 3 months or so)
- Seventh generation (update every 6 months or so)
- http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Npd_total_hardware_sales.png (update every 3-5 months)
- http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Npd_total_sales_%28aligned_launch%29.png (update every 3-5 months)
- Quarterly reports (every 3 months)
- Seventh generation
- 2009 fiscal year
- Wii, PS3, etc (tables)
- http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Console_wars.png
- http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Worldwide_quarterly_sales.png
- http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Worldwide_total_sales_aligned.png
- http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Worldwide_xbox_360_lead_over_ps3.png
- http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Console_hardware_sales_%28shipped%29.png
[edit] Miscellaneous news
- Incorporate into articles somewhere, somehow
- xbox360 claims half of all online console gaming
- Xbox 360 - 8 million in Europe
- 2005 uk review
- Game industry quotes | Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans
- http://www.vg247.com/2009/03/31/360-hits-1-million-in-japan-ps3-breaks-3-million/
- when ninty systems were announced
http://kotaku.com/5195274/japanese-game-industry-sales-dropped-last-year
