Nintendo Wii Reaches 7 Million

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stof said:

KruzeS said:

Oh, come on. The numbers on the site may not be accurate at all because of the way the data is collected (shiped vs. sold, sources, etc). But clinging to the auto-update thing, and showing javascript code like you're on to something, is plain silly. Have you never heard of stats like McDonald's opens a new restaurant every three hours? You really thing thet do that, every three hours on the clock? It's an average people! The same thing could be done with sales data on VGChartz, and as long as the data was good, and the numbers and assumptions where corrected when approriate, it would be neither better nor worse with an auto-update than without.

 The reason people bring it up is that it's just a trick used to give the site a false sense of credibility.  "Hey look, the numbers just went up!" But really the actual numbers themselves aren't based on any credible data and they're going up just because they always do that. 

 

Wow... your discontent for nexgenwars is pretty serious. If you ever take a second to click on "where the numbers come from" they specifically say that all the numbers are estimates and definitely make no mention of the automatic updating numbers as being some sort of counter that adds a unit everytime a certain console is purchased. It is used as an average... as someone who posts on both forums, I can tell you that the hate for nexgenwars here far exceeds the hate for VGchartz over there. Not to mention, calling there site innacurate when all their figures are within something like a million of yours doesn't exactly benefit your sites credibility very much..