Yeah they were, but Sochi is warmer than what most people think of when Russia comes to mind.

I remember Nexgenwars! It was the first console sales website I was ever introduced to ... I think people used to use their linked infographics for forum sigs in other gaming sites, iirc. Pretty sure they just used bulk historical data to make a super-crude time-based estimate of sales, is all.

That's exactly what they did back in the day. It was a pretty shit website haha.

Seen that at the very start it was like Gamefaq gone wrong, how is that working out now? Don't even want to google it to risk raising it's popularity rank on that engine.

And yeah, there was a time when I would encourage other people to visit vgchartz as a forum which was great and also a good sales site, now the site is just basically the forums and the fact that it's called VGchartz doesn't really make much sense as a name... the chartz are effectively worthless with 2 month old data, I mean what... are we meant to still be discussing the first weeks of sales on how Mario Kart 8 deluxe are selling and in a few months time the forums can move on to talk about how Arms sells its first weeks? by the time the updates come for games they are already either clearly fan favourites or have been forgotten into obscurity. You really can't expect a forum to function and talk about chartz from 2 months ago as though they are relevant?

I would say PS4 happened... since there isn't a battle itself he lost interest in putting numbers... that is if Sony numbers are to be believed.

Its always been worse. When numbers are coming and everything is good that is not the norm and quite a surprise and a good time

Yes, there's been plenty of times. I don't know what the big deal is. I come to shoot the shit with these asshats and not for the numbers. Numbers are good for the site because it attracts more people to the site but personally I don't really care.

We used to argue with each other using different colored text, without Multi-Quote and the biggest topic of the month (every month) was about if Forza or Gran Turismo was the real definitive racing game.

Dark times.

BUT FUCK YOU!!!! THAT CAR GAME YOU LIKE IS BUNDLED A LOAD!?!!!1111 THE CAR GAME i LIKE HAS NEVER BEEN BUNDLED EVER AND IT'S A SYSTEM SEEELLLLLLLLLLLEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Those were indeed dark times.

I'm guessing the site needs more revenue. It's hard to spend all your time working on a website AND hold down a full job AND manage your family/social life. I use to say this all the time when I had a popular web show. People would always bitch because I could only broadcast once a week and I'd always tell them that in order to do a daily show, I'd have to see more revenue coming from it.