| scottie said: ioi is the reason indeed - I'm amazed they continued to hold on for as long as they did, offering only monthly american sales, as compared to VGChartz's weekly, worldwide sales, as well as the vast amount of additional features and better interface that VGChartz offers. |
For many of those looking at the numbers, features and a better interface have little meaning. One of the criticisms of VGChartz and why any mention of VGChartz will get you banned on NeoGAF, is that a couple NeoGAF members got their hands on some VGChartz excel files before the NPD numbers were published, finding that the numbers ioi was using was inflated well above 10% what the official NPD numbers were when they came out and before VGChartz massaged their numbers to get in line with NPD's numbers.
With NPD gone now as a free source and everything on subscription, the necessity to provide the source of VGChartz's numbers will be all the more important. Without NPD as a comparison, you have no comparison besides the industry numbers, which many of us know will be inflated.
As it began is where it stands now, it is about the numbers and where you get them, not just how you categorize them as information for the mass public to read and comment on.
