Introducing The Xbox Gameplay Chart

By Rich Stone,

I've been interested in charts since I was a kid — finding out which artist had sold enough records to reach number 1 was a regular weekly event in our household. I was naturally interested in the video game sales charts, produced by several institutions, but I've found all of them wanting. For example, UKIE releases a UK retail games chart every week, but it doesn't include digital sales, so it doesn't tell anything like the full story. We wanted to produce something that produced a more accurate representation of the titles all Xbox gamers are actually playing, so we've produced the first ever Xbox Gameplay Chart.

Each chart follows these key points:

The chart is compiled on a Monday morning, and takes gameplay data from the previous 7 days.
The data is taken from a huge pool of active Xbox gamers (over 2 million)
The gamers come from everywhere across the globe
The gamers are not just TrueAchievements users, it's a general cross section of Xbox gamers
We are not looking at achievement data — if someone plays a game and doesn't unlock anything, it still counts
We will not be releasing individual numbers for each game, just their chart positions

We are going to be releasing the Xbox Gameplay Chart every Monday at 4pm GMT, and you can find the first chart here. We hope you will find it interesting.

Written by Rich Stone

Yo! Rich here - I was the one that created TrueAchievements back in 2008 as I felt the Xbox Gamerscore system could be improved. The site has evolved massively since then and it's now the biggest and best Xbox community on the planet! Racing games and open world shooters are my thing, but I'll give most genres a go. Except RPGs - those things are evil.