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Jaywood2010 on 29 April 2013
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Kresnik said:
JayWood2010 said:

So undertracked by around 46,000.  Not too bad for VGC.  I expect 99.9% of every game on VGC to be undertracked or overtracked by some small or large degree.  These are estimate numbers, not officiol numbers.  As long as they aren't undertracked by 100s of thousands or millions it doesnt bother me too much.  Although I really wish that someone could find away to track digital if that is possible in any way.


That's the thing though.  There's nothing wrong with numbers being a little bit off, because like you say, they're just estimates.  But when we've got a ballpark figure from NPD, why hasn't it been changed yet?  It doesn't have to match the exact numbers but they could at least bump it up 40k or so.

I bring this up every time (so sorry if you've heard it before :P) but after 2012's NPD we've still got 3DS games which have yet to be adjusted.  iirc (I don't have the exact post with me now) but Angry Birds is ~ 300k undertracked and Kingdom Hearts is ~ 100k overtracked (they were the two most obvious errors).

It's just lazy at this point and it really frustrates me.  Things don't have to be 100% accurate but when we have guidelines, you'd at least expect them to be used (especially since the Japan chart is pretty much exactly extracted from Famitsu/Media Create).

Sorry for butting in to your thread :)

No you are right.  They have had this problem for a long time.  Barozi has mentioned many X360 games missing a lot of UK data and that has been years yet it hasn't been updated.  They should update them because  NPD is a more accurate source.