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Slimebeast on 28 January 2010
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Zlejedi said:
binary solo said:
Zlejedi said:
Slimebeast said:

So Demon's Souls and Valkyria Chronicles have a lot higher numbers on VGC than NPD.

I hope it's just a coincidence that these two games also are extremely unproportionally popular on this particular forum...

This is probably system error if you look at this it's often high quality low sales number gamers that are very hypped in the internet that get overtracked a lot by VGC.

This would imply that those games receive the status of must have's and the number of for example VC sales is a some multiplier*number of consoles sold (you can see this by investigating massive surge of VC sales in christmas season)

Yes I'm quite certain ioi uses an internet hype factor modifier in calculating estimates for games. It definitely seems like it would improve the accuracy of the estimates most of the time.

Punch-Out, Conduit  - both had adjustments after first month NPD

Simple link:

http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?game1=Valkyria%20Chronicles%20-%20PS3[18897]

 

Wow, that's quite an unnatural sales pattern over time (even if u disregard the first part of the curve which I assume is Japanese sales).