Chapter 5 Find AAA Games

5.1 Find AAA Developers

First, we try to find AAA developers. We draw the Cleveland dot plots of their sales volume and sales. We draw vertical lines of top 1% and top 0.5% for sales volume and sales. We don’t show smaller companies on the plot.

We pick the top 0.5% companies in both graph as our AAA companies. There are 18 companies in total which is an appropriate number considering we want the major companies.

5.2 Overview of AAA Devolpers

5.2.1 Number of Games

We reorder the developers by sales and show how many games they released. We are surprised that Pubg Corporation tops the sales but only has one game released.

5.2.2 Sales Volume

In the sales plot of AAA companies, Valve surpasses Pubg. We claim that it’s because Valve has more low-price games or free games. We can examine it later by showing their free games.

5.2.3 Total Sales

We can see that the Pubg exceeds Valve in sales value. Pubg Corporation with just one game got much more money than all the other companies. Pubg is so popular!

5.3 Games of AAA Companies

In this shiny app, users can select and view the data themselves. Choosing the AAA developer and variable, it draws a dot plot of the certain variable of certain developer. The available variables are: “Average playtime”, “Median playtime”, “Ratio”, “Sales Volume”, “Price” and “Sales”. We can have an overview of the games of AAA developers and their performance.

If you are a Steam player, you can see many familiar names on it, such as Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Portals. Feel free to find the games you like and see their performance.