| Carl2291 said: I post this time and time again. http://www.vgchartz.com/article/82746/editorial-why-it-is-so-easy-to-blame-vgchartz/ More people need to actually read things about the site and the sites numbers. _____________________________________ What VGChartz offers is timely data that isn't meant to be 100% accurate but be in the right range. We don't compete with the likes of NPD, GFK or ChartTrack; we offer a service that is totally different. One that is not based on comprehensive and direct retail tracking, but rather uses modern and alternative methods to quickly arrive at estimates, combined with a database of historical sales - constantly adjusted and tweaked to be as accurate as possible.
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In the past representatives of VGC claimed to work with retailers and have actual access to real life store sales samples, but I wander what happened since then.
My guess is it took too much time to keep those relations active and instead they left the strategy on trying to have their own hard data and instead decided to solely rely on all these alternative methods to estimate sales data (polling, leaderboards, surveys, past sales data, official shipments etc), which IMO works quite well on a consistant basis.
