VGC is doing charts now? Looks like hiring all these people really helped them to expand their portfolio.

The top 2 games are dominating, especially how its only so far available in Japan! And Splatoon is still doing really well!

Where was I on the 8th August?

Oh right. I was looking at the world's first computer but it was unable to run properly because of the heat. My was that day warm! The gift shop had even sold out of ice cream.

Now we are at risk of snow next week...I guess figures are good; great even. But when they take so long to update the community lose interest because they really just aren't even remotely relevant to the here and now. And that becomes a vicious circle which can only get worse as time goes on.

2 months later to the day. I like it. Gonna generate some great discussion!

The numbers are so wrong it physically hurts me.

Pah. Details.

(Edited. The facts are still correct though!)

We already have HW numbers up to 29 August. So my question is will we have to wait for SW to catch up to HW (i.e. wait 2 months, from now) for the first September hardware numbers?

Question: Will we get October NPD results before VGC posts it's first September week numbers?

Given the huge lag between hardware and software reporting, it's clear software estimation is becoming increasing difficult and I think a change-up is required on that front. Software should be reported on a monthly basis only with the only weekly report being estimates for sales of newly launched games. The tracking should remain weekly, but reporting should only be monthly. Then, hardware can be reported weekly with much less lag time.

I was just about to post a goodbye thread, well I was going post a goodbye if VGC doesn't post new numbers by 17 October (which would have made it one month since the previous update) thread . I guess I won't be saying goodbye for now. But I am losing interest in this site if it continues to lag in its numbers to this extent. It's coming to the point where we are getting more frequent sales data from more accurate sources (NPD and quarterly company reports), and once we start getting that more reliable data quicker than what VGC puts out it makes VGC irrelevant as a sales tracking website. It is looking almost certain that we will get the quarterly reports before VGC has all of the Sept quarter posted.

All we can do is hope ioi doesn't stop? Man, isn't this exciting...

How neat is that

Who cares? It's October