New Poll - why do you visit VGChartz?

[mizticgohan]

In my opinion, this website has become too concerned with supplementary features and has lost focus on what they do best. I commend you for trying to provide diversity and thereby expanding your influence beyond sales data, but this website was built on video game sales data and analysis.

I personally began visiting this site in the hopes that we could establish a strong competitor to NPD. Obviously, this is not a small task and I'm sure you've done your best to bridge connections with publishers, retailers and the like and I would like you to continue to do so. But I don't think trying to shoehorn features onto the website is going to help your cause. Most of these features (news, game reviews, videos, etc) are done better elsewhere with experienced journalists and webmasters with deep pockets. In addition, these groups have built strong ties within the games industry and therefore are able to offer exclusive content and interviews with some of the best in the industry. They specialize in what they do best and so should you.

As I see it, this website is the best alternative to NPD available with some of the best sales analysis that I've ever come across. It is for this reason it pains me to see all that hard work being done on source data that may or may not be accurate. That is, if the statistics are unreliable, the analysis is useless.

I've seen this site grow over the years and it seems as though the hardware data is improving but the software data is severely lacking. In my opinion, the only way that you're going to receive a sizable increase in hits is by improving your data. Many potential viewers choose to distance themselves from this website under the stigma of inaccuracy and unreliability. I believe that a focus on improving the data through building strong relationships with all relevant parties shows your commitment to the growth of the website and to the community that supports it.