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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."

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Really good editorial from Brett. Its just a shame that so many people refuse to accept the numbers for what they are.