nordlead said:
They share just as much as NPD. Besides, do you really need to know which stores VGChartz gets information from? Will it make you actually believe the numbers any more. I can gurantee it isn't Walmart and ToysRus, which are the two biggest retailers for Nintendo videogames. If ioi said he is getting information from 10% of the retail market, would it really make a difference?
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It probably would. If it really was data from 10% of the market it would be huge. But of course it isn't so, because it would require at least 10 guys to do a full time job to gather and analyze such huge amounts of data that 10% of the market is. And as far as I know, ioi is almost alone doing this, and not even full-time.
I'd be extremely happy if ioi had a continous stream of sales data even from just 1% of the market. I doubt it, but even if he had, he never could disclose that fact because most ppl are morons who then always would say "don't trust VGC, they only cover a tiny 1% of the market!" not realizing (because most ppl lack statistics skills) that a 1 % sample actually would be a very solid solid base to estimate sales from.
