Holy Hell hardware adjustments!

[drkohler]

Khuutra said:

drkohler said:

Khuutra said:

Secondly, for a site as clearly transparent as VGChartz, itsi mportant that our adjustments be as transparent as possible. Brett is doing the right thing in being open and clear about the adjustments he's making, because he keeps the integrity of his weekly numbers as much as is possible given his resources.

This is the point where I strongly disagree with you. With such high changes done "overnight", I'd have expected an editorial (or at least a main thread by the owner) explaining in detail what happened. Contrary to this, absolutely nothing was explained. The one explanation (inserted into this thread after xyz pages) that data for certain regions was overtracked for 3-4 years is dubious, at best. We have official shipping numbers from quarterly reports, and we also have the occasional data leaks from GfK which could have been used to raise a red flag. Add to the fact that this site is still giving estimates down to single digits ("77286 XBoxes sold in America last week" is not a meaningful number when doing an estimation, it is a mathematically precise number which is simply false in this context), it does make this site look less professional.

We still agree in principle, I would hope, that the site is better served by simply making adjustments rather than compensating for them over months and willingly presenting knowably false numbers.

Of course we agree.  Numbers have to be adjusted, after the quarterly reports of all involved have come in and leaked "official numbers" show discrepancies. These are the only "reasonably safe" points (assuming channel stuffing levels out over several reports), and a cheesy Nintendo graph does not count as a safe point to adjust values in such drastic ways. (And no, I don't care the least who sells how many consoles. I find it simply interesting that someone is trying to track all this data without having the financial means and/or sources to get safe data points).