@Mushashi, Well, my personal rule for expectation : benchmark them against your peer. Example : - Am I doing as well or above average when compared to my colleague (those that have id range in 7189 +- 1000, or 6189 - 8189) - Am I doing as well or above average when compared to those who have the same range of networth (say 23 Million +- 5 Million, or 18 Million - 28 Million) - Am I doing as well or above average compared to my previous effort in prediction league ? since I didn't have that experience, no benchmark in this category.
So, if I am producing / selling GTAIV, I would compare its sales against : A. GTA SA, GTA VC and GTA III. B. other games in the same genre (Saints Row, Oblivion, Godfather etc). C. other long-time series in the different genre (such as Zelda, Mario, Halo, MGS, to name a few)
I am sure that no one expected GTA IV to have 500% increase over GTA SA, but is it really unreasonable to expect, say, 60% or 70%, improvement from GTA SA to GTA IV ?
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Well, my personal rule for expectation : benchmark them against your peer.
Example :
- Am I doing as well or above average when compared to my colleague (those that have id range in 7189 +- 1000, or 6189 - 8189)
- Am I doing as well or above average when compared to those who have the same range of networth (say 23 Million +- 5 Million, or 18 Million - 28 Million)
- Am I doing as well or above average compared to my previous effort in prediction league ? since I didn't have that experience, no benchmark in this category.
So, if I am producing / selling GTAIV, I would compare its sales against :
A. GTA SA, GTA VC and GTA III.
B. other games in the same genre (Saints Row, Oblivion, Godfather etc).
C. other long-time series in the different genre (such as Zelda, Mario, Halo, MGS, to name a few)
I am sure that no one expected GTA IV to have 500% increase over GTA SA, but is it really unreasonable to expect, say, 60% or 70%, improvement from GTA SA to GTA IV ?