Mike_L said: Sales figures on VGChartz are based on estimates extrapolated from small retail samples. When Brett Walton (the owner of the site) was asked he gave the following answer: "The methodology we use for all of our charts in all regions is the same and our data is arrived at by a combination of the following: - Sampled direct sell-through data Exactly how we get from these various sources of data to final figures differs from game to game and console to console and our exact methodologies are confidential for obvious reasons." |
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