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LordTheNightKnight on 10 June 2008
famousringo said:
Did anyone else roll eyes at NPD numbers being 'real' while all others are just 'guesstimates?'

Kotaku, Land of Douche.

Well VG Chartz even bows to them at the end. They just try to get as close as possible, and have been getting better at it.



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famousringo on 10 June 2008
LordTheNightKnight said:
famousringo said:
Did anyone else roll eyes at NPD numbers being 'real' while all others are just 'guesstimates?'

Kotaku, Land of Douche.

Well VG Chartz even bows to them at the end. They just try to get as close as possible, and have been getting better at it.


Doesn't make them real, doesn't make VGChartz's estimations a guess. 



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The Ghost of RubangB on 10 June 2008
DKII said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
HIS NAME IS PACTHER, NOT PATCHER. READ YOUR TITLE. THEN READ YOUR ORIGINAL POST. SEE A DIFFERENCE?

 The irony is you spelled it wrong yourself.


 Hahahahahhaa, oh man I was so mad when I typed that earlier.  At least my typo was due to blind fury!



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LordTheNightKnight on 10 June 2008
The Ghost of RubangB said:
DKII said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
HIS NAME IS PACTHER, NOT PATCHER. READ YOUR TITLE. THEN READ YOUR ORIGINAL POST. SEE A DIFFERENCE?

 The irony is you spelled it wrong yourself.


 Hahahahahhaa, oh man I was so mad when I typed that earlier.  At least my typo was due to blind fury!


And I have the excuse of not being able to fucking edit the title.



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Chadius on 10 June 2008
TheSource said:
yeah I basically set it up to annoy neogaf.

 The lulz are epic.

 

It's also good to see sites using VGChartz, instead of gurgling "It's not NPD! WAAAH!" Yeah they still consider it "not the real thing" but whatever.



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Slimebeast on 10 June 2008

Can someone clarify how Patcher used the numbers?

VGC has for May NA:
X360 213,324 which for USA is rufly 0.9 x 213 = 192K
PS3 197,765 ----- is rufly 0.9 x 198 = 178K

But Patcher predicts much higher numbers for May USA:
X360 250,000
PS3 225,000

Now obviously Patcher uses rounded numbers, but why the discrepancy?

Should the conclusion be that he used VGC numbers as raw data, keeping the ratio between X360 and PS3, but believes that VGC undertracked by 20% this month?



super_etecoon on 10 June 2008

My only question.....

What's Pachter's screen name on VGC?



elgefe02 on 10 June 2008
LordTheNightKnight said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
DKII said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
HIS NAME IS PACTHER, NOT PATCHER. READ YOUR TITLE. THEN READ YOUR ORIGINAL POST. SEE A DIFFERENCE?

The irony is you spelled it wrong yourself.


Hahahahahhaa, oh man I was so mad when I typed that earlier. At least my typo was due to blind fury!


And I have the excuse of not being able to fucking edit the title.

 His real name is Panther. 

 



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Andrex on 10 June 2008

I always thought it was "Pachter".



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celine on 10 June 2008
Chadius said:
TheSource said:
yeah I basically set it up to annoy neogaf.

 The lulz are epic.


 Love it



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