thismeintiel on 20 October 2011
| amaral_slb said: Sorry for the n00b question, but why are the shipments numbers so important in VGchartz??? I mean, it´s nice to know how many 360/PS3/Wii where shipped, and the money companies are making, but you don´t know how many were already sold to the consumer and how many are in the shelves. So the true question is, why are these numbers important for us VGchartzers when it comes to sales??? (true question yo) |
Because VGC is not 100% accurate. In fact, they have been way off a few times in the past. With shipment numbers, we can compare the sell-through number VGC has with the official (and 100% accurate) shipped data. If there is a huge gap, like say 2-3 million or more, than VGC is undertracking a system. Of course, if VGC has the sell-through higher than the shipped numbers (which I think happened with the Wii) than they are severely overtracking its sales. These comparisons will lead to adjustments and a more accurate VGC.
