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pezus said:

Dark_Feanor said:

pezus said:

Dark_Feanor said:

Aerys said:
Now i understand why Neogaf banned VGC

On the other hand they still use those numbers when discusing the situation when there is no other official number.

Using VGC numbers is a bannable offense. You'll have to support that with some evidence.

They use in a very stelth way and the numbers then became "officials" because of repetition.

Look at yesterday MS financial report, the numbers 4/4.1/4.2 where all around that thread.

Eh...maybe because expecting around 0.9-1m on shelves is the reasonable thing to do? I don't see how VGC could account for the whole 4-4.2 range...we only have one number here

Actually, looking at most of ioi's posts about number veracity, you see that he doesn't mean for the numbers to be interpretted as exact.  There is a perfectly understandable margin of error (which is also true for NPDs margin of error - which is slightly smaller due to a larger number of tracked retail sources).

Indeed, week-on-week, most of the arguments in this thread is over the numbers that fall well within the margin, rather than the outliers.