kitler53 said:
RolStoppable said:
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This would be perfectly true, if VGC made adjustments to hardware numbers that are obviously false. At some point last year we had DS sell-through outpacing DS shipments and it took months until this was corrected. The same holds true for the PSV this year.
VGC being off on software (especially smaller games) isn't really that big of a deal. There are hundreds of games released each year, so it's bound to happen. For the majority of relevant games, VGC gets within the margin of error they set for themselves.
I don't mind it either, if VGC is off on hardware every now and then. But in instances like the above mentioned with shipment data and Nintendo's graphs for the European market being available, it shouldn't take more than a week until the figures are corrected.
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shakarak said:
So I decided to google VGChartz to find the first forum topic that pulled up in the results (I was bored and procastinating). What I found was something a lot more interesting. I looked through the first 5-7 pages of google results and to my surprise is quite a few of the search results were negative articles about VGChartz.
So I was wondering by VGChartz get slammed so often by other gaming sites, is it beacuse the site doesn't release it's sources? Has VGChartz earned it's bad reputation? More importantly does it affect the future growth of the forums, gamrview, and gamewise? I believe this must of been one of the many reasons Brett decided to seperate Gamreview and Gamewise from the VGchartz brand?
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yes, yes it has. 1M+ adjustments to ps3 and 360 sales (over the course of a quarter) just add to the farce that is our "data". when i think vgchartz the phrase broken clock comes to mind. besides, as things get increasingly digital the numbers become increasingly irrelavent.
..but i like the people in the forum.
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This make me wonder if VGchartz will be able to find a way to track digital sales. So far they haven't because their PC numbers are always way off.
