Tables and Graphs

games	Pre-Order Sales	1st week Sales	Total Game Sales to date
COD: MW	1.5 million	2 million	13 million
COD: WAW	2.3 million	3.6 million	11 million
COD: MW2	2.2 million	3.2 million	12.5 million
COD: BO	2.6 million	5.6 million	10 million

Phew who knew making a chart into a table in the newest version of Excel was a million times harder than it was back in the 08 version? That was unbelievable like I'm supposed to know how to insert legit computer language, thank god the powerpoint version was a thousand times easier and actually seemed like it wanted you to be able to make a graph out of your data. I chose to make a table first then a bar graph of the sales of the four most recent games in the Call of Duty franchise. It was a little tricky to find the numbers because some would vary by site and at times I had to add up the pre-order sales from each individual system. It should also be noted that the most recent game COD: BO or Call of Duty Black Ops has only been out since November 9th of this year so the fact that it has sold ten million copies so far is pretty amazing. I started by making a graph in my sketchpad just so I could get my rows and columns down before I started playing around with the different computer systems and the visual graph options in them. The table is one of the many table options in the excel program and I liked this one for its simplicity, it's easy to read and right to the point. I wanted to make a bar graph because I thought it would best display the three columns of data for each game if they were side by side by side. Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how to put a label on the y-axis of the graph in powerpoint to make it clear that the numbers are in the millions, but when the graph is coupled with the chart it makes sense and I really don't think anyone would assume these huge game titles had only sold 13 copies to date at most. Its also easy to see in my graph how the popularity of pre-ordering games has grown in the subsequent years after the first Modern Warfare title was realeased. I wanted to put the full names of the games on the graph but spatially that just wouldn't have worked.