• ashughes@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This has to be one of the worst designed data visualizations I’ve seen in a long time. God knows social media isn’t wanting for shitty dataviz, but this one is particularly awful. It’s an assault on my senses trying to read it.

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised from a company called “visual capitalist”.

  • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Baldur’s Gate 3 was pretty good - aside from the mega-thirsty player-sexual NPCs - but I’m replaying the originals now and enjoying them more. Didn’t play a single other game in this list!

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If you ranked games by revenue, none of these games would be on the list. Candy Crush and Clash of Clans would fire their CEO if their revenue was pathetic as Activision.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If you ranked by budget, none of them would be on the list either. Monopoly Go would just take up rank 1-20.

    • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Their source is this page on the Video Game Sales Wiki, which does say “The following titles are the best-selling games released in the 2020s, as of 2025.”. That’s how I read the headline, but you’re right, it would have helped if Visual Capitalist had clarified by including that bit of info.

      • Unattributed 𓂃✍︎@feddit.onlineEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yup, and the article (Ranked: The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020} that was published using that data mis-represents it:

        This visualization ranks the best-selling video games from 2020 to 2025 based on global unit sales using data from Video Game Sales Wiki (Fandom).

        IMO - I find the “Visual Capitalist” site to be a questionable source of information… There are quite a few red flags when it comes to that site.

    • Davel23@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      I suspect these are the best selling games which released between 2020 and 2025. For instance, Breath of the Wild has sold about 33 million copies, over 10 million more than Tears of the Kingdom but was released in 2017.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The sentence itself, could be taken either way, but any reasonably intelligent gamer would be able see the list has only games released since 2020 and know which way to take the sentence.

          • Unattributed 𓂃✍︎@feddit.onlineEnglish
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            3 months ago

            There’s nothing about this that says “Best-Selling Video Games Released Between 2020-2025”.

            And, the tagline “Where Data Tells The Story” really means they should be explaining exactly the data they are presenting. Accurate framing is every bit as important as the information… You can’t assume that two people looking at the same piece of information are going to interpret it the same way unless it is properly framed and presented.

              • Unattributed 𓂃✍︎@feddit.onlineEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Oh, I get it…but my point is not everyone will get it, and the information is inaccurate. Sorry you can’t understand that data presentation isn’t just about gamers…it’s a much larger issue these days… And this is just a really good example of it being handled badly.

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Well, I know at least one part of this is pretty out of date. Baldur’s Gate 3 just got confirmed a few weeks ago as having sold over 20M copies. We have so many round numbers here because companies generally only share milestones.

    • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Not just out of date, complete and utter fabrication.

      TIL people eat shit from the “visual capitalist” and swallow it whole. I’d bet my right nut this image took 15min of AI “prompt engineering” and 30 of photoshop copy-paste. None of if is remotely reliable.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Where are you getting the term “visual capitalist”? And why did you learn about this phenomenon today? Misinformation has been rampant for over a decade now.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Its source is a wiki, noted in the bottom right corner. I’ve seen plenty of these numbers reported publicly before. By its very nature, it’s going to lag behind real time.

        • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Funny you should say that, because I checked the source and they haven’t compiled the 2025 list. You know what would definitely halucinate one…

            • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
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              3 months ago

              I see different figures for the list. The one in the infographic does not exist.

              • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                There were three edits in the past few days. Feel free to look at the diff, but I’m not making a Fandom account to do so. It would stand to reason that it was this list, and those three edits probably account for Palworld’s number being lower in the graphic and why the wiki has two more games on it, if they pulled the data more than a few days ago.

                • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
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                  3 months ago

                  If only there was a pervasive tool nowadays that is famously inaccurate, likes to hallucinate and frequently cites deprecated data… Something artificial that slop content mill producing shitrags like the visual capitalist like to use… I can’t quite put my finger on it…

                  edit: Fyi, that’s why any writer worth its salt puts dates on their citations and usually citations include urls. Just another piece of the puzzle that when put together screams “visual capitalist is a shitrag low effort content mill and people should not propagate their message”.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Pretty much all single player games guess we best roll another overwatch clone

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Since the graphic is counting sales in units sold I guess free to download “live services” wouldn’t really appear.

      Would be interesting to see the same counting revenues.

  • blue_skull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Well at least one of those Switch Sports sales was a double buy by me because somehow the first digital copy I purchased, and played many times and put maybe 20 hours into golf, just decided to up and pretend I never bought it. One day it just told me I needed to buy it and my trial period was over. Despite having already bought it years before. I couldn’t find the proof of purchase email even though I had one for every other game. I emailed Nintendo, they said they had no record of my purchase even though they could clearly see dozens of hours played across multiple sports. I also have a video of my kid playing it like a year before this happened. I eventually just re bought it. It was honestly one of the weirdest and unsettling experiences of my life. Like a portion of my life was deleted and only I remembered. Even my brother was doubting me.