VG Chartz #'s are full of it?

[Just_Ben]

OriGin said:
While I don't agree with Nintendo's methods, he sounds like an immature school kid - and I wonder what his publisher would think if they knew he was posting on here...

I can't believe how many people are so blinded by VGChartz numbers... it's ridiculous how defensive people get.

This just in, the VGChartz numbers are an estimation, and saying that NPD is corrupt and fudge the numbers is just stupid.

Please realise that you are all looking at a well educated guess, but everyone MUST understand that when it comes to software its not that close... Hardware is a different matter and I believe that the Hardware numbers on VGChartz are pretty good... even if its out by a couple of hundred thousand the graphs oh the front page are good enough to trust as a fair indication of the relative position of the market.

 QFT. Interesting how many say here our numbers or we, giving the impression their are involved or could actually do something to change the numbers. That are ioi's number, and there are the best you can get - for free. That is quite an accomplishment and very hard hard work for ioi and we can be thankfull that he does it. But the main software (that sell well) are sometimes off by +- 20 % , mostly +- 40% if you compare them to NPD. They get adjusted every month after NPD data comes in, and thats fine to me. Software that doesn't sell well can be quite more off. I know I will get bashed for this, but just take a look at those two links (Forbes vs. VGC).

I don't complain about that, that is just the way it is at the moment, at thats fine for me. I don't understand why people bashing ioi for the inaccuracy, this site is very open about its accuracy (VGC again NPD comparison in the news), but i also don't understand why parts of this community is loading crap on anybody who wanna talk numbers he find or can provide or even just imagine. This is a sales discussion forum, after all.