VG Chartz' Japan numbers: dishonest?

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Torillian said:

Declan said:

My suspiscion is that they're just made up based on what Media Create and Famitsu publish.  If they used their own independent samples, there's no way the numbers would always come out so close to the others.

Couldn't that same thing happen if all the numbers were fairly accurate and close to the true value of sales for that week?

not only this, but VGChartz has the japan preview, which is based off of 1 stores sales. Since they get that stores sales ealiest they do the preview. Sure it isn't very accurate compared to when all the numbers come in, but it is something.

Also, VGChartz used to publish their Japan numbers before Famitsu and Media Create, but since then has changed the order around so it is now typically Others, NA, Japan, so Japan usually comes in on Thursday now.

So obviously VGChartz generates their own numbers.