Category: Updates

Today is the day we officially launch the VGI PlayStation and Xbox data.

Console insights are updated daily, giving you the most current insights available on the market.

What’s new?

PlayStation and Xbox data almost entirely matches with what we already had available on PC before. You’ll be able to see:

• Performance and Commercial
  • Units Sold (Daily basis)
  • Prices (Daily basis)
• Engagement
  • Daily Active Users (Daily basis)
  • Monthly Active Users (Daily basis)
• Player Insights
  • Playtime Breakdown (Life to date, updated daily)
  • Country and Region Breakdown (Currently PS only. Life to date, updated daily)
  • Games Owned Breakdown (How many other games players own on the platform. Life to date, updated daily)
• Player Overlap
  • Showing what other games PS and Xbox gamers are playing. % overlap, overlap index, MAU overlap etc – fully replicating Steam optionality.
• Reception
  • Rating (Daily basis)
  • Number of Reviews (Daily basis)
• Metadata
  • Developer and publisher information
  • Release dates
  • Genres & subgenres
  • Game engine

On top of that, we have released a new genre taxonomy which you can read about here. It unifies our games across PC and console and provides a consistent taxonomy going forward.

How can I access it?

The PlayStation and Xbox data is available as a new product add-on

Ready to see the data for yourself? Request a demo or contact your Sensor Tower Account Director!

This update comes with a bunch of smaller bug fixes and visual updates. However, the bigger new feature allows you to now filter the Player Overlap tool in a better way.

You can now easily combine the power of overlap % and overlap Index. For example, you could only look at games with at least 10% overlap and sort by overlap index. This would result in only larger games being shown, but still ordering by their relative persona preference.

We are now showing wishlist breakdown by country estimate for unreleased (and also released) games! You can now see where the interest towards a game is coming from.

We have added a couple of much requested features to the paltform recently:

Month 1 and Year 1 units sold on Games Database

We’ve added 2 new columns to the Games Database – Month 1 and Year 1 unit sales. This allows you to have quick like-for-like comparison for launch performances.

Not only that, you can use these together with our “wishlists at launch” metric to get a better understanding of the wishlist to launch conversion ratios for the games you care about.

https://vginsights.com/games-database

Top charts now include Daily and Monthly Active Players

Top charts already had an option to see top CCU games. Our new DAU and MAU options add more colour to player engagement.

https://vginsights.com/top-charts

Steam page created dates

You will be now able to see when the actual Steam Store page was created for majority of games, including how long it took them to get from Store page creation to launch.

This is a super useful metric for understanding how to optimize the Steam page and how early other games release their Steam pages pre launch.

https://vginsights.com/game/kingdom-come-deliverance-ii

We’ll be bringing you more new features shortly! Stay tuned.

We have just added game engines as a datapoint to all games. As a business subscriber, you’ll be able to see the game engines for most games with >10k sales.

Business subscribers will also be able to see game engines as a separate column in the Games Database.

You’ll also be able to filter games based on the engines!

Our wishlist estimates have been the best in class since we launched them back in March. Well, they’ve just got a bit better. We have had to tweak our methodology slightly and this has resulted in even smaller variance VS actual numbers in our internal checks.

Key changes:

• Some games weren’t tracking wishlists properly before and they are now
• Some games’ wishlists were overestimated before where we’ve now fixed that bias

This impacts all wishlist numbers we show. We encourage you to update any analysis that relied on the old numbers.

Note that we try and keep any large scale estimation changes to a minimum, but in order to provide you with the best estimates possible, we do occasionally need to make these changes.

We will make sure to give a heads up in the future rather than report any changes retroactively.

We’ve just released our estimates for daily active users (DAU) and weekly active users (WAU) for Steam games.

You’ll be able to see these metrics for any game with at least 100k units sold by going on their individual games page and using the “historical data” section.

Note that these metrics do tend to give a highly correlated view to the much used concurrent users (CCU) metric on Steam. However, DAU and WAU are much more used in corporate environments and serve as a more practical input for most modelling purposes.

Additionally, the DAU metric sets us up for the upcoming PlayStation data where you will be able to start comparing PC & PS DAU metrics and see what the platform mix looks like for multi-platform games.

We have revamped our filter system, making it easier to use and improving its functionality.

Filters are available on many pages, from Steam Analytics to Games Database and can help you narrow down a list of games or companies to look at. We’ve long had an extensive list of filters to choose from, but we’ve now made it even more powerful to use.

Include / Exclude Filters

You can now include as well as exclude characteristics in filters. For example, you might want to see all 4x games, but exclude any turn-based games, leaving only real time 4x games in the list.

Search for Filters

Some of our filters had tens if not hundreds of options to choose from. We have now added a search bar to make it easier to look for the particular item you’re interested in. For example, you can now find all the RPG tags with ease.