happydolphin on 11 February 2013
| Kresnik said: I came here for the numbers, but stayed for the games discussion and community. I think it makes the place more inviting and we should encourage it, actually. I mean, if we're interpreting this site absolutely strictly, then any discussion beyond that of videogame sales should be off limits. And there's just not enough content to qualify that at the moment. We still have plenty of threads about numbers every week, which I participate in. The global up thread; the weekly pre-order thread; the Famitsu/Media.Create thread. Sure, not every single person here posts in them, but a lot of people do. A big problem with the site at the moment however (and sorry for hijacking your thread to say say this) is lack of accuracy with everything. I've seen various people theorising how far off every single console is from shipment numbers from the variety of sources we've had over the past couple of months (NPD/GFK/Nintendo's figures), yet nothing has been changed about it yet. Millenium made a thread; I've posted on ioi's wall about errors to do with 3DS figures but nothing has been changed about it yet. I appreciate that running & maintaining this kind of site is hard. It takes effort and time which most people don't have. But I don't think it's unreasonable to expect adjustments within a month of NPD. Anyway, ranting aside, I feel that reason may cause people to be a bit apprehensive about commenting too much on the figures represented here. We're tracking Ni No Kuni very nicely in US & EU, but there's been a lot of discussion about whether this is likely to be adjusted way down because VGChartz's method of sampling skews heavily for JRPG's. Which, I suppose in itself is discussion about game sales :P but kind of beside the point. Anyway... |
The only thing that would worry me is when people put discussion about games above discussion about business and sales. That's what worries me the most.
When I had my thread on Nintendo's prices for its games compared to steam games, I was bashed for bias against the games. I think that's an issue with the people and content of this site.
