The weekly sales threads are not generating a lot of posts any longer, this is something I have noticed in the past few weeks. OP is right that the numbers should the number one priority; every other function besides sales is more or less exactly the same that you find on any other gaming site.

I still enjoy the site and community but I fear for its future when the debates and discussions are turning more and more away from the core concept of the site; hardware sales numbers. It is of some concern to me that the site it this quiet a mere 1.5 years after all the 8th contenders have hit the market; the sales dicussions were absolutely on fire in the early days and well into 2009 and 2010 for the 7th generation machines and market.

I haven't been here very long, but even last summer it seemed like the numbers got updated more regularly. 

Considering that debate over the unexpected manner in which sales performances for the 7th gen unfolded essentially drove traffic to VGC, maybe it shouldn't be quite a surprise that the general lack of debate over how the 8th gen has developed makes sales figures more of a market analyst concern rather than a non-professional product/company fan concern.

Nobody is really intelligently debating that Nintendo is going to turn the Wii U into a success, given that Nintendo is already outlining its replacement with a fairly open acknowledgement that the 8th gen has not developed as planned or estimated. It's tantamount to waving the white flag for this gen.

Debate over whether MS can turn the XBO into an eventual PS3 success (success being defined as rescued over multiple years following a near disastrous product launch) story is similarly lacking given the amount of flip flopping and general changes to the original platform vision with no significant changes to sales performance. 

When observers are simply looking at the sales figures (as you stated being the primary reason for VGC existing), there really isn't much excitement to be had barring the occasional crank post that makes the type of wild prediction or alternate analysis that really doesn't merit serious discussion. 

Sales-wise, the 8th gen has been fairly dull because SCE won early with no signs things will pan out any differently by the end of the generation. 

Maybe that's just where VGC is given the current state of the market. 

Is the same for me, I joined in 2007 or so, left when the site spread into 5 and got all cluttered in the main page, and after it got slimmer I have been coming back slowly, but onlybecuase I care about the numbers, but right now they are more than one month behind : /

My main gripe about the website functionality is that something about this website is making my browser run extremely slowly, and even with other websites open in different tabs navigating around them is slowed down considerably. As soon as I close all VGC pages my browser runs properly. No other website causes that sort of problem, so there's something seriously wrong with this website.

Same with me. 2007 member here and I sued to visit the site several times during a day and post a lot. Nowadays I mostly check it out at work from time to time and watch the Japanese numbers and the COMG preorder forum.

The site needs as up to date and correct as possible numbers if it wants to be back on the top.

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At first I thought that the site was going month to month until they updated the most recent numbers listed.

I'm now thinking that that they'll just keep non paying members in the dark for that extra month or so to make the vgc pro service more appealing.

I hope I'm wrong, though.

I agree with the mobile site part quite a bit. It's borderline spammy how often the site will force me to redirect to the Play Store for some app or another. I've cleared my cache several times to try to fix this, but it's ingrained into the site itself. How any professional can think it's appropriate to spam users is beyond me. Moreover, trying to back out to the previous thread isn't possible; hitting the back button will send you entirely to the previous part of VGC accessed in that tab. I.e., it will either send you to the previous page if you're in a thread, to the main page if you didn't go anywhere yet, or delete the tab altogether if you opened it in a new tab.

Let's hope ioi will listen to our requests. Thanks for replying everyone!