Makeover Monday | Week 35 | 2019: PCs to Become the Smallest Gaming Platform in 2018

For week 35 Andy picked a dataset about gaming and the shift from PCs and consoles to mobile.

The original visualization looks like this:

What works well:

• Nice distinct colors that are easy to differentiate from one another
• Sorted chronologically
• Title is informative and succinct, while subtitle provides more context

What could be improved:

• What year is this visualization from? The title makes it seem that 2018 was in the future when this viz was created but then the viz itself goes to 2021 - that's confusing.
• What are some examples of the different games and are there games that can fall into both categories or are they very distinct?
• so what? What's the impact of these changes?

What I did:

• With a small dataset such as this one, there are limited options and after a quick bit of exploring, I settled on a line chart.
• A line chart to me is a great way to represent the change of market share over time in this gaming market as it shows the reversal from traditional PC and console games towards mobile so clearly.
• I stuck to the original colors because I really like the combination.