Vgchartz has a bad rep

[misterd]

dallas said:

Username2324 said:

SSSBOLIMAR said:

Username2324 said:
It's because VGChartz data is found by only a couple of people, and the majority of its staff are just gaming enthusiasts not professionals.

 

way to agree with them meanie

I'm not agreeing with them, I'm just saying that's a valid reason why many do not trust VGChartz and why you should not take its data 100% seriously. You can use the data as esitmates.

 

vgchartz uses numbers from the NPD, so our numbers pretty much have to be spot-on

 

After the fact. The numbers usually have to be retroactively corrected. The good thing is that VGC tends to be very open about this, and will highlight the differences between their estimates and NPDs. This means that only recents sales (within the last month) will be unreliable (if you want better than a 10% margin), while long terms sales (most notably console sales) will be relatively accurate as the last month makes up only a small % of the overall sales.