| pap64 said: BUMP! Sorry for bumping this old thread, but it seems that Go Nintendo decided to be at peace with VG chartz and have decided to quote any sales as not final. You can read the article here: http://gonintendo.com/?p=67274#comment-2370846 One of the comments, however, say that the founder of this site was banned from GAF from pulling numbers out of nowhere. Can someone PLEASE explain me this? |
The story goes something like this.
ioi is the owner of this site, and used to be an active member over at GAF. He thought that they could provide better tracking information than what was currently provided and decided to start tracking sales himself. He took freely available data and used it to create better data. He shared the information freely with GAF, but some people over at GAF didn't like this too much, and claimed he was pulling numbers out of his ass. They especially didn't like that he wouldn't disclose his sources of information. part of the reason not to disclose such information is to prevent NPD from threatening VGChartz and forcing those stores/sources from giving any information to VGChartz.
ioi then started VGChartz as his own site, and GAF banned him since they were jealous that they didn't have VGChartz as their own. Ever since then GAF has spread hate and lies about VGChartz and has even banned the name from their site. You get banned if you post numbers from VGChartz on their forums.
Anyways, most sites don't understand VGChartz, and don't realize that VGChartz is willing to adjust its data to correct for previous mistakes. Now NPD does the same thing (i'm positive they do) but they don't publish those corrections to the general public, only the paying customers.
Since no one ever sees corrections from NPD, they take NPD as gospel (which they shouldn't, as it is just an estimate). People do see corrections from VGChartz, but originally tried to take VGChartz as gospel (which they shouldn't, as it is just an estimate). (this part is conjecture about why goNintendo said they got burnt in the past) GoNintendo posted numbers from VGChartz, and everyone took it as cold hard facts. The problem, is that VGChartz shoots for 20% accuracy on weekly numbers, and 10% accuracy on monthly numbers (i may be off on the %s). Since the numbers changed, GoNintendo (I'm sure influced by GAF members) then said that VGChartz must be pulling numbers out of their ass.
