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Conegamer on 28 November 2012

These articles are quite old really; and I believe the tracking has improved.

It's certainly far from perfect, but...what else do we have to compare it to anyway? It's not like we get anything reliable bar maybe Nintendo's numbers, and Japan numbers, but they former is every 3 months and the latter is one country. VGC is about the best we can hope for otherwise.



 

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DanneSandin on 28 November 2012
sales2099 said:
Its the best source we got, and its free :)

Plus they tend to correct figures once hard data comes out, so it all evens out

Really? Why haven't they corrected the Vita numbers then? Isn't it generally accepted around here that it's over tracked?



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DanneSandin on 28 November 2012
zuvuyeay said:
it doesn't seem to be viewed that well but like kowen said they are oldish,

i thought people agreed the hardware figures were pretty good after the last set of shipments,it seems pretty hard to track s/ware these days i wonder how often they re-jig their calculator thingy and if they'll ever include a digital estimator

Weren't it just last week when we could conclude that HW here was massively over tracked? I remember reading the Japanese charts here and people came to that conclusion. Or if it was like 2-3 weeks ago...



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zuvuyeay on 28 November 2012
DanneSandin said:
zuvuyeay said:
it doesn't seem to be viewed that well but like kowen said they are oldish,

i thought people agreed the hardware figures were pretty good after the last set of shipments,it seems pretty hard to track s/ware these days i wonder how often they re-jig their calculator thingy and if they'll ever include a digital estimator

Weren't it just last week when we could conclude that HW here was massively over tracked? I remember reading the Japanese charts here and people came to that conclusion. Or if it was like 2-3 weeks ago...

probably,i must have missed it,but i thougth after the shipments it was acceptable but maybe i am getting it wrong



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sales2099 on 28 November 2012
DanneSandin said:
sales2099 said:
Its the best source we got, and its free :)

Plus they tend to correct figures once hard data comes out, so it all evens out

Really? Why haven't they corrected the Vita numbers then? Isn't it generally accepted around here that it's over tracked?

Should have said "eventually" in there.



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Gilgamesh on 28 November 2012

As long as people realize the current numbers are good guesstimates and the old number are more then likely actual numbers (numbers from video game company old games and consoles).



shakarak on 28 November 2012
kitler53 said:
RolStoppable said:
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This would be perfectly true, if VGC made adjustments to hardware numbers that are obviously false. At some point last year we had DS sell-through outpacing DS shipments and it took months until this was corrected. The same holds true for the PSV this year.

VGC being off on software (especially smaller games) isn't really that big of a deal. There are hundreds of games released each year, so it's bound to happen. For the majority of relevant games, VGC gets within the margin of error they set for themselves.

I don't mind it either, if VGC is off on hardware every now and then. But in instances like the above mentioned with shipment data and Nintendo's graphs for the European market being available, it shouldn't take more than a week until the figures are corrected.

 

shakarak said:

So I decided to google VGChartz to find the first forum topic that pulled up in the results  (I was bored and procastinating).  What I found was something a lot more interesting. I looked through the first 5-7 pages of google results and to my surprise is quite a few of the search results were negative articles about VGChartz.

So I was wondering by VGChartz get slammed so often by other gaming sites, is it beacuse the site doesn't release it's sources?  Has VGChartz earned it's bad reputation? More importantly does it affect the future  growth of the forums, gamrview, and gamewise?  I believe this must of been one of the many reasons Brett decided to seperate Gamreview and Gamewise from the VGchartz brand?

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yes, yes it has.  1M+ adjustments to ps3 and 360 sales (over the course of a quarter) just add to the farce that is our "data".  when i think vgchartz the phrase broken clock comes to mind.  besides, as things get increasingly digital the numbers become increasingly irrelavent.   

..but i like the people in the forum.


This make me wonder if VGchartz will be able to find a way to track digital sales.  So far they haven't because their PC numbers are always way off.