ioi speaks out about ergh "VGC analysts"

[Zod95]

Max King of the Wild said:

Zod95 said:

You raised 2 important issues:

1 - "They report in territories they have absolutely no data"

2 - "Their competitors have much more resources"

So I have 3 questions for you:

1 - How do you know they report in territories they have absolutely no data?

2 - How do you know the resources of VGChartz?

3 - How do you know that, given the resources VGChartz has at disposal, there can't be a way to use them in order to get results as accurate as its competitors?

1. 2. & 3. common sense. do you think VGC gets data from Africa, Japan and Middle East? Because they report numbers for each of those regions. If i remember correctly ioi said they fet 2000 data points a week.Thats not even enough for US let alone global. I know VGC resources because Ive been here since 2007. It use to be ioi doing estimates from home as a hobby.

1 - Common sense and the 2000 data points per week aren't enough to claim they get no data from Africa, Japan and Middle East. The fact that you believe that not even USA would be totally covered with 2000 data points doesn't mean they have all of them in there. I'm not saying I'm sure you are wrong, just that you can't be sure to be right. What if VGChartz covers the main world regions and has extrapolations methods to make good estimations about totals?

2 - There is no common sense here. How can you guess such thing? Can you be sure that in 2007 it was ioi all alone to get the numbers? And how can you be sure that now (7 years later) nothing has changed?

3 - Specifically what common sense are you applying here? What hard science can support you in order to claim "no, there can't be a way, it's impossible and there isn't room for out-of-the-box solutions"?