ultraslick said:
I'm with you on that one. I now understand why the people on neogaf feel the way they do. There is no justifying inaccuracies of this magnitude, not ever. the slogan here should be; "Your guess is as good as ours!" |
Is it really that big an inaccuracy? I personally assume VGChartz has an error margin of around 10% (though I'd wish they'd publish what they feel their margin of error is) and I don't think that is particularly unreasonable, especially in others. Just look at the comparisons between Famitsu and Media Create. There are often times their numbers differ by 10% or more, and they are only tracking a single country, not multiple countries across multiple continents.
These types of adjustments aren't uncommon in most areas which use statistics modelling either. New data comes along or a model gets refined and numbers suddenly jump around. The fact is, the numbers are "good enough" for anyone here to have some fun and a bit of a discussion about game sales. Anyone who feels they are "owed" an explaination or is upset about these changes needs to lighten up a bit or do their own personal stats tracking if this site isn't good enough for them.
