| Mr Khan said: I think it's just a matter of general suspicion of "internet sources" myself. I'll relate the attitudes at joystiq (as its my prominent stomping ground) in that, if you reference this site in order to cite sales of a certain title that hasn't been tracked by NPD/Media Create/That European Equivalent, you generally get whited out (as down-voting a post turns it a lighter shade, until it's hard to see). The consensus elsewhere is that vgchartz overtracks everything, and that numbers are "pulled out the ass" as it were
It's really an unfounded fear, kinda like when you try to convince teachers/professors that wikipedia is a reliable source, and not just "something any idiot can change to say whatever they want" |
There is a big difference between using VGChartz as a resource for market analysis and using Wikipedia as cold hard facts. Wikipedia is NOT a source for facts. If you want to use Wikipedia, use the sources that wikipedia uses.
VGChartz is used for analysis of something that no one knows the facts for. VGChartz is just as good as NPD for doing some market analysis and determining trends.
