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niceguygameplayer on 27 June 2017

The software is behind and the hardware is behind. However, I appreciate that the software guy is trying harder than the hardware guy. He is about two weeks ahead. The hardware is nearly 2 months (not weeks) behind. Has this always been the norm on Vgchartz? 



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Frogger on 27 June 2017

Asking will help.



niceguygameplayer on 27 June 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
I thought the software and hardware guy were the same person?

And yeah, this is the norm for VGC. Wasn't always the case, but for the last 2 years or so being a month or 2 behind on hardware has been pretty standard.

So how updated did it used to be before 2 years ago?



niceguygameplayer on 27 June 2017
spemanig said:
Asking will help.

This very post is asking.



Qwark on 27 June 2017
niceguygameplayer said:
Ka-pi96 said:
I thought the software and hardware guy were the same person?

And yeah, this is the norm for VGC. Wasn't always the case, but for the last 2 years or so being a month or 2 behind on hardware has been pretty standard.

So how updated did it used to be before 2 years ago?

There where times when this site had a delay of 2 weeks tops. Those where the times when VGchartz was actually a great source for hardware updates.



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niceguygameplayer on 27 June 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
I thought the software and hardware guy were the same person?

And yeah, this is the norm for VGC. Wasn't always the case, but for the last 2 years or so being a month or 2 behind on hardware has been pretty standard.

I remember reading that it was 2 different ppl somewhere.



niceguygameplayer on 27 June 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
niceguygameplayer said:

So how updated did it used to be before 2 years ago?

Can't remember precisely, but we always used to have full VGC months before the NPD months released. So it was maybe around 2 weeks between week ending and VGC posting hardware figures?

Hardware always used to come before software too.

Wow, that sounds much better! What happened? 



niceguygameplayer on 27 June 2017
Qwark said:
niceguygameplayer said:

So how updated did it used to be before 2 years ago?

There where times when this site had a delay of 2 weeks tops. Those where the times when VGchartz was actually a great source for hardware updates.

So it can be done! Why has it gotten this bad?



Slarvax on 27 June 2017

You should pray to your ioi altar more often.



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JRPGfan on 27 June 2017
niceguygameplayer said:

The software is behind and the hardware is behind. However, I appreciate that the software guy is trying harder than the hardware guy. He is about two weeks ahead. The hardware is nearly 2 months (not weeks) behind. Has this always been the norm on Vgchartz? 

June the 11th we got told the PS4 was over 60,4m units.

I wouldnt be surprised it takes atleast a week, to collect numbers from differnt places world wide.

So a week into June PS4 should be at 60,4m on VGCs.

The problem is..... what about the Switch and the XB1?

 

Also we know that like 3 week(s) update's from VGC should give a +1.8m result, so the 58.6m -> 60,4m in time.

But the last global week nrs had PS4 at 270k.

So theres some undertracking to figoured out as well.