well sometimes the site is in range with npd to that extent, but i've seen it be WAY off before as well. It's like me saying I owe you 100 bucks but I give you 60 bucks, I might add the other 40 later on but at the moment it isn't quite what was expected.
I know some diehards here actually are silly enough to debate npd being less reliable then vgcharts though, so it's probably a lost cause even daring to say vgcharts is not accurate at the moment. I take all numbers here as user level estimates until their adjusted accordingly basically, and when seeing how 50k or more units of hardware get randomally added because of press releases, it is at this point you know the site really isn't there quite yet.
I just find it silly for one to use this site to declare a winner (outside of the wii) for a specific week or to declare one game a success or bomb. When npd comes out there will likely be many VERY large differences and they will likely be adjusted here. I expect mass effect to be in the 400-500k range for npd (I think it's 2 weeks tracked anyways)
More to the point, I find it annoying that some of the users here are near cult level, calling people who don't trust the numbers 'detractors' for instance is actually kind of disturbing in my mind, people doubt the numbers because they see them constantly adjusted to fit other sources numbers.
I still love the site for other reasons, it's more unified then any other site and it does become accurate eventually, sorry I just had a little annoyance seeing someone mention once again how someone may dare question the validity of vgcharts figures.
Note: Some games in my collection are no longer owned, but have owned.
