Mike_L said:
WebMasterFlex said:
Mike_L said:
vivster said:
I would cut VGC some slack. They do not have that many data points and it seems those lie mostly in Xbox territory. They should listen to their data first and only second to trends. If they're just blindly adjusting their numbers to trends this whole thing becomes pointless guess work. If at some point their data speaks the truth they would be the fools by changing them due to "popular demand". I'd rather trust my own gathered data even if it seems biased than adjust them for popular beliefs.
They're still adjusting them when they gathered more data so I don't see a problem.
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I agree completely. I just don't get why it's suddenly forbidden to express your doubt about the numbers.
Most of the users doing so back up their prediction whether it's last week's numbers, NPD, Amazon ranking, etc.
Aren't predictions and crow eating part of why vgc is fun?
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I agree but I have a question, what is the VG's source of their little data points ?
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Sales figures on VGChartz are based on estimates extrapolated from small retail samples. When Brett Walton (the owner of the site) was asked he gave the following answer:
"The methodology we use for all of our charts in all regions is the same and our data is arrived at by a combination of the following:
- Sampled direct sell-through data
- Industry knowledge and experience - applying past trends in terms of marketshares, regional breakdowns, casual vs hardcore and so on
- plenty of statistical analysis, regression calculations, market projections
- Contact with industry figures - buy-side analysts (such as Pachter / Divnich), sell-side analysts who work with us on specific products / projects, manufacturers who work with us to project sales of their key titles
- Retail checks - we have a team who talk to stores and estimate shipment figures for low-stock and hard to find items which we struggle to track with our normal data samples.
Exactly how we get from these various sources of data to final figures differs from game to game and console to console and our exact methodologies are confidential for obvious reasons."
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Thank you very much. That's the best answer I have read since I'm here.
If NPD shows PS4 outsold - again - X1 in USA for April. What does that mean for VG ? They "made up" too much their numbers ?
