A few days back in a discussion someone pointed that phone heights have started to shrink again after continuous increase from last 10 odd years. But he could not back up that with data. For few days, I was searching for a reason to deep dive into large data pool...
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Genre Diversity in XBox One: Similar trend as PS4 except lack of Japanese-style RPGs
Last week, on the first part of the genre diversity series we looked at Playstation 4 (PS4 Genre Diversity). This week, we are doing the same for Microsoft’s XBox One. A Short History of Source Data The data consists of genre info for all games released in XBox collected from...
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Genre Diversity: Shooters and Action Adventures dominate Playstation-4
First a prelude of sorts. While wandering around different gaming forums, I came across lots of people complaining ABC console is less diverse but found no hard facts(numbers) to back that up. After the great response (and criticism) for my previous five-parter series Consoles in Numbers ( links can be...
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Wii U Developers: One developer show was simply not enough
Lack of multi-platform and third party support trumped an otherwise excellent stable of first party titles
This is the second portion of our Wii U analysis and is focused on developers. You can check out first part of the Wii U here- Wii U in Numbers -First Part of Wii U This is also the third part of the ongoing analysis of consoles this gen. You...
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Wii U in Numbers: Slow Stream of Releases Sounded the Early Demise
Frequent stoppages took its toll on an otherwise decent console
This is the third part of the ongoing analysis of consoles this gen. You can get up to date with other parts of the series which can be found in the following links: PS4 in Numbers - Playstation 4 XBox One in Numbers -First Part of XBox One XBox One...
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