I sat down with the developers of GameStrata today (that powerful game stats analysis site that we told you about a few weeks back). And while they didn't have any major announcements for me to break, they did enlighten me as to their gameplan for their coming—in their mind—years of success.

And I have to admit, their plan sounds pretty good. So hit the jump for their ideas on cloning Xbox achievements for PS3 users and a lot of other neat stuff.

Achievements
No one knows what Sony will do with the PS3's version of LIVE achievements. Whenever their service rolls out, there's a good chance that achievements could be quite different. But GameStrata, while aggregating all of your sweet online play data, could somewhat easily build their own achievements into any game, PS3 or Xbox 360. While you might not see it on the console itself, it would be built into your online profile...and that's worth something, right?

Console Support
GameStrata's graphs of your shot accuracy percentages are nice-looking, no question. But without integration onto the actual console you're playing, all their efforts could be for naught. I want to see my stats in (essentially) a real time in my real game environment. There's no reason that publishers couldn't stream stats into their games, the team told me. In fact, they claim that there's a good amount of interest to develop such integration. And technically it would even be possible to get the data on your XMB or Xbox menu system, but that's a more doubtful proposition for obvious reasons.

Clan Integration
But maybe the most promising GameStrata feature that's on the way in the near future is expanded clan support. Imagine taking a 5-person team and stacking up its stats against another 5-person team. Challenges could be issued (ala Nike Plus, for those who've used it) for specific matches, like HeadShot Battle or Accuracy Fight. The possibilities for unique matchmaking are truly exciting, and specific challenges could do a lot for adding variety to stale maps or tedious deathmatch gameplay.

User Incentives
Right now GameStrata users can accrue points for doing a number of things on the site, like quiz/message board participation. But if they can straighten out the logistics with third parties—an admittedly big if—GameStrata would like to offer these points as exchangeable or real world money, like PSN savings. Once again, we'd put this probability at pretty low—but one thing that's working in GameStrata's favor is that in working closely with publishers to do all this data tracking, the publishers could find it worth their while to reward the hardcore (GameStrata-sing fanbase), all while extending product longevity through occasional, light DLC discounts.

So are GameStrata's plans just a bunch of marketing BS? Possibly...even probably. But there's a lot of legitimate potential in their technology if the integration process isn't too much of a burden on publishers. So we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Oh, and for the record, GameStrata has very much noted that they need to support COD4 and Halo 3...whether that means a deal is in the works or not, we will see. Apparently a major announcement is coming in the next 30-45 days and they are in serious negotiation with 4-5 publishers beyond their current lineup.

Send an email to Mark Wilson, the author of this post, at mark@gizmodo.com.