From the CORGIS Dataset Project
By Austin Cory Bart acbart@vt.edu
Version 2.0.0, created 4/13/2017
Tags: video games, games, publishers, console, gaming
This dataset requires special permission to use.
Originally collected by Dr. Joe Cox, this dataset has information about the sales and playtime of over a thousand video games released between 2004 and 2010. The playtime information was collected from crowd-sourced data on “How Long to Beat”.
Some more information can be found here.
<Cox, Joe. “What makes a blockbuster video game? An empirical analysis of US sales data.” Managerial and Decision Economics 35.3 (2014): 189-198.>