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Carl on 22 July 2012
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ioi said:


Give me a break, it's a slow time of year at the end of a generation - people aren't interested in discussing sales.

Creating VGChartz Pro to provide a professional level service to clients wanting more in-depth data hasn't taken away from the data that is available on the site - you can still see which games are doing well, you can see how each platform is performing and so on - Pro isn't responsible for the decreasing interest in sales this generation. The weekly chart pages get more hits now than they did 2 years ago, it is just that there aren't many trends to discuss. If it were still possible to see down to what game #753 had sold I don't think that would be inspiring much more discussion.

The gaming industry in general is slow right now - E3 was very disappointing, the last 6 months have been probably the worst H1 for 10 years in terms of quality games and as a result sales are slow. It has nothing to do with VGChartz Pro, you sound like a broken record.



I could understand where you were coming from if the problems were only recent. Aside from the odd thread, the sales forum has been abysmal for the last Year and a half. We have a new generation of HW and multiple games that can/will sell 5-10 Million+, yet conversation doesnt pick up.

Im not asking for a top 1000 chart. Im asking for the sales tools that were removed. The articles that we no longer get. They were great, they (along with the free data) made the site unique. They added something for users to interact with. It made sales topics interesting It was such ease of use / accessibility that made VGChartz so popular with people.

Other unique features / articles have also disappeared with the sales team. Publisher totals, Japan Preview, Prediction League, Monthly charts, Graphs. Things that encouraged sales chatter. They were brilliant. I understand that were coming swiftly to the end of the console generation, but were also over a Year into a new handheld generation. The 3DS broke records. The Vita tanked. The possibilities for comparison are huge, yet it seems nobody other than the normal forum goer gives a shit.

If the extended charts, graphs and comparison tools didnt go to VGC Pro, then where did they go? Speaking of Pro, btw. How well is it doing? Are we allowed to know? According to the page its still "Coming soon".