About Video Game Insights
Video Game Insights (“VGI”) is a games industry focused data intelligence platform under the Sensor Tower Inc portfolio of products. We provide estimates about individual games and companies performance and market trends. We’ve been building the best games data platform since 2020 with a focus on PC & Console market.
This page will highlight some of the key terms, methodologies and approaches we use.
Estimations methodology
We are using a combination of methodologies to estimate our metrics. To learn more about the methodology, please reach out at sales@vginsights.com.
Based on our internal tests, we've found that our estimates are within ±15% margin of error at an individual games data level for 84% of the games on Steam. At an aggregate level, the estimates are within ±5% margin of error.
See our detailed article to learn more about the accuracy of our estimates. The article also includes the results of comparing our data against the publicly available actual data.
Glossary
AAA Publishers Publishers who have over $7.5m revenue per game released, over $250m lifetime revenues on Steam, average game price of over $17 and has an average game complexity above a VGI defined threshold. This list has then been manually refined by VGI to adjust for generally accepted classifications. AA Publishers Publishers who have $1-7.5m revenue per game released, $50-250m lifetime revenue on Steam, average game price of $10-17 and has an average game complexity above a VGI defined threshold. This list has then been manually refined by VGI to adjust for generally accepted classifications. Indie Publishers Publishers who don't fit the AA criteria. This categorie includes some bigger names as well as tiny 1 person self published games. Genre 9 genres defined on Steam Sales Units Estimate Using different estimation methods, including an algorithm based on our internal database of actual sales and the Boxleiter method to get from Steam review numbers to estimated sales. Detailed overview of the method is highlighted in the section below. Sales Revenue Estimate Estimated units sold multiplied by the price at the time. This is gross revenue, including the Steam cut, but adjusted for local currencies, returned products and discounts. Paid games Games that have a purchase price of more than 0 at the time of the VGI database udpate. Price Price of the game on Steam at the time of the VGI database update. Publishers Publisher names as defined by Steam.
Note: Some publisher names in Steam are duplicative and slightly misspelled, e.g. "BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment", "BANDAI NAMCO Entertainement", "BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc." We are working to fix this and merge publishers under one name. 3rd party sources
VG Insights uses both 3rd party data sources as well as primary research for its database. Due to the large 3rd party datasets, we are unable to guarantee complete accuracy of all datapoints, but do our best to fix and improve the data as and when discrepancies are highlighted.
Steam API – List of over 50k games, their price points, reviews, genre and numerous other datapoints.
IGDB API – List of hundreds of thousands of games with good metadata tagging.
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