| BenVTrigger said: Yeah honestly I dont think many people on GAF have any idea how good some of the sales discussion on here can be. Chartz numbers are off sonetimes so the whole forum gets a bad stigma but un terms of understanding the business side of the industry we are far ahead of them. |
The problem is that people take VGC numbers too seriously, when they are to be taken as rough estimations only.
As always when this comes up, Ill post this - http://www.vgchartz.com/article/82746/editorial-why-it-is-so-easy-to-blame-vgchartz/
"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."
"However, even with the greatest of diligence, our data is still just an estimate so whenever quoting a figure from VGChartz it should be listed as an estimate and readers should be made aware that there is a margin of error associated."
-
Really good editorial from Brett. Its just a shame that so many people refuse to accept the numbers for what they are.
