Yakuzaice said:
The worst part is there was no real reason to be so far off on the Vita. The Borderlands bundle came out the week before the standalone game. VGC actually recorded sales for the week of the bundle. Yet despite originally showing 42k+ sales when Borderlands was only available in the bundle, they showed ~2k hardware sales. They did actually adjust it. All the way to 5k. How that made sense to ioi or whoever is overseeing these numbers is beyond me. |
VGC's methodology is just terrible. Its numbers are dependent on a miniscule sample size of the market and past trends. In contrast, NPD actually buys access to sales numbers from major retailers and thus, their figures are way more accurate. I learned years ago to never, ever trust VGC numbers.
