| ioi said: Well you have gone and put it again there. The problem with your stance is that our figures for PS3 are not always lower than others and for 360 not always higher. It does alternate, as is the nature of random sampling differences and so on. It is your underlying belief that there is some sort of systematic and intentional bias in our data that bothers me. I couldn't care less which console is ahead of another, what we do is try to report information that is accurate, unbiased and neutral, based on the raw information that we collect. |
Not bias that's putting words into my mouth. I honestly stated in the past on other forums that I believed VGChartz corrects the data and tries to learn from any wrong data.
I tried to find some past comments but it's difficult in those huge discussions threads I posted to. I did find this comment from me: "Sony only releases "shipped" data, as it's difficult to accurately track "sold". I believe http://vgcharts.org/ is the best place to track this sort of information."
On some occasions VGChartz has been heavily criticized for being off too much, I defended the website on several occasions by stating that I believed the managers will adjust their figures when better figures are available and learn from mistakes and find ways to improve the data. I am not your enemy ioi.
There may be other reasons than bias, IMO it's your job to indentify the reasons, I and others don't have enough info with regard to your methods. Maybe some shop info you use sell more 360 than PS3s, for instance due to marketing efforts or special deals. If the problems are consistent and persistent you can take this into account and adapt data accordingly to better represent the full market data.
