| MrNathanDrake said: I dunno, Neogaf is a pretty good site without much blatant fanboyism, and they still ban ppl just for mentioning VGchartz |
I don't know about you, but 'banning ppl for mentioning (any site)' pretty much negates the possibility of being a 'good site'. It shows they are not open to debate and that you deserve to be punished for not thinking the way they do. Would VGChartz be a 'good site' if we banned you just for mentioning GAF?
I don't know why Brett was off on the PS3 predictions, but whatever it was, you seem not to notice that pretty much EVERY analyst grossly underestimated the effect. So anyone who solely points him out is just looking for reasons to hate.
The fact is, Brett gets his numbers the exact same way that NPD does, just on a smaller scale (and representing almost the entire world, instead of just the USA). Add to that that he adds the numbers weekly, instead of monthly. Since the NPD doesn't release their numbers as often, they have much more time to go back and correct them before we see them. Yeah, Brett has to update his algorithms sometimes, but the site is still growing and all it does is make us even more accurate. We'll never be 100% spot on, but neither will NPD or any other tracking group. We release numbers more often, and it's all free to anyone who wants a look.
Now, all those other sites, well, let's just say NeoGAF has quite the band of mindless followers. Our numbers have been quoted by many game developers and other corporations as being pretty accurate when it comes to sales of their games.
In short, NeoGAF just wishes they'd taken Brett (ioi) up on his offer to do this service for them before he decided to make his own site.
