I have been paying more attention to SW numbers, so I didn't even notice the HW numbers are so far behind!

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I think it sucks that the HW numbers have been so poorly and infrequently updated for the last year, and that after a brief glimmer of hope, that hinted at a return to normalcy, the HW chartZ have been left to rot again, missing 4 consecutive weeks. But whudareyougondo?

You guys are overreacting at this point. The lack of numbers are by no means surprising.

I frankly feel that we're getting to the point where people are unfairly getting the blame for the drop in activity in the site. People haven't been making sales threads like they used to either, and that's a big contributing factor in the loss of focus. If nobody makes threads about sales, nobody talks about sales. If nobody talks about sales, nobody cares about sales.

Should we be happy about missing a month in hardware sales? No, but having weekly consistent sales is worthless if nobody's talking about it. And no, I don't mean the threads the regurgitate the weekly updates. I'm talking about the kinds of threads that picked at specific sales numbers and work out to find their greater implications. No one has any right to criticize them for not doing their parts if you aren't doing yours.

Of course you don't. You're not paying for access to this information. This isn't a service you have any entitlement to. It's a community that feeds of the information that feeds off the community. If you're not giving the site a good reason to be consistent with the charts, you have no right to complain when the site isn't consistent with the charts.

It's not like the website saw this explosion of activity and relevance when the software sales became consistent again. People bitched and moaned about it and then they got it back and no one cared. VGC used to have huge discussions and articles written about the sales, and then other sites would see this activity and use this info in their articles, and then the site would get more traffic, and then more money, and then more consistancy. We used to get interesting sales threads daily, and now we barely get them at all. None of that shit matters if no one cares to talk about it. If the only incentive for being up-to-date with the charts is that people won't whine about it anymore, it's just not going to happen.

That's just business. If no one's buying your product, there's no reason to keep making the product.

Is there anything the team can do on the community side of things to maybe get the ball rolling a little? Sure. I would probably be a good idea to insentivise the embassadors to make the kinds of sales threads I described. Instead of making a bunch of community building threads about the best game character or something, maybe it might be a good idea to get them to focus more on making threads about stuff like that recent thread addressing the poor sales of Street Fighter V, specifically quoting our charts as a reference.

Whatever is done, the complaints are unevenly being placed on the team behind the scenes and not being placed enough on the community that gives them purpose.

I dont really notice anymore, iv kinda lost interest in HW numbers tbh

Wait what... we're meant to make threads talking about month old HW numbers and discussing them to prove we're worthy for new numbers?

I can't be reading that right... can I? I'm off to bed lol.

Hey man, did you see how much the Psone is kicking the N64s ass all over the place, it could be all over for the Saturn tho if the fight stays between Sony and Nintendo for number 1 and 2 spot! Maybe the EU numbers for the Gamegear will show that Sega still rules that market!!!!!!11

Can I haz new numbers now?