Also, it's not a matter of "lighting striking twice"
How do you think that ioi gets his numbers, honestly? He uses retail samples. Instead of going to who is selling the games, I'm merely polling who is actually playing, and going from there.
And it *just so happens* that virtually every game on any gamercard website mirrors VGC sales charts, NPD sales charts, or any other western stat tracking service.
Using the gamercard data, I can poll roughly 10% of the actual Xbox 360 userbase at any given time, and roughly 17% if you were merely talking about Live-enabled users.
So the point is: If you could look at 17% of all Xbox 360 owners (or any system, for that matter), don't you think you could figure out how games are selling? That's all I have done.
I've been right about Fable 2, Fallout 3 (which the numbers are pending, but I've scored on them too), and many other games. More and more, ioi is pinging me about my methodology to use as a good way of projecting X360 sales for games, because the same size is even larger than how he gets his normal data.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
