| Jasmine said: That's great, Lenard, thanks for doing the math for me. My calculations must be off but my MBA from Wharton must not be worth the paper it's printed on because I am still finding total vgchartz % to be off by unacceptable amounts when compared to actuals but, again, this is a fan site so I don't care. I could start up my own site, drop numbers in from here and there, change them whenever, make claims and suck in fans, but I don't. I am not saying vgchartz is the only one, far from it actually. I come here to read the forums when I have time off, as I do so many others. these type of web sites serve a great purpose on the internet and I'm glad they are around. What I despise is when one site trashes another for no good reason or when one flamer gets a bug up there butt and thinks the site they are on is the only site out there with knowledge. These type of sites are great for making predictions. It is fun to see how close or not people can come to the real thing. Each month is a shot in the dark and one month vgchartz is closer or nextgenwars is closer or simexchange is closer. It's all good. |
First of all comparing VGChartz and NGW is like comparing apples and oranges. NGW is straight up a guess, nothing but made up numbers being updated every couple seconds. VGChartz actually samples retailers and does full sales analysis similar to what NPD does. So the comparison of the two sites isn't even valid.
As for your MBA from Wharton, I'm not sure why that matters or why you got defensive of someone posting some numbers. I didn't see him imply you couldn't do the math, he was just making you aware of what the numbers were. Now if you have numbers and sources to refute him feel free to do so, or you can ask him for his numbers and sources so you can see for yourself. But in the meantime it just seems like you are lashing out at anything that contradicts you.
As for the "actual" numbers you speak of, if there were such as source there would be no need for NPD, MediaCreate, etc...
I too used to post on NGW, but I got very tired of long stretches where it was painfully obvious that the numbers on the site were completely wrong. I also found the discussion on this site to be far more engrossing as actual numbers, data, and analysis was being done rather than just guessing.
Until you can provide at least minor proof that NGW is based on something other than just a constant rate of increase for each console with rare updates to fix the gross innacurracies, you are not going to have much luck convincing anyone. People tend to believe in things they can see, and they reserve faith for their religions. I think it's a bit much for a website to ask people to just believe in their numbers.
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