Just Alter The PS4 Sales To 10 Million And Have Done With It.

[Devil_Survivor]

Aura7541 said:

wary-wallaroo said:

Aura7541 said:
I think VGC should just scrap their entire tracking altogether and just update sales based on Sony, MS, and Nintendo's sales/shipment announcements. They can just add up NPD and Media Create numbers to tally up LTD totals for US and Japan, respectively.

Nah, just adjust the number, and figure out where they were failing. Compensate in the next few weeks (AKA, that means putting the PS4 significantly ahead, I know that'll hurt VGC, but it's the truth). 

In my opinion, adjusting the number isn't enough. VGC will just screw it up horribly again in the future. Their methodology just plain sucks. It doesn't use any proper techniques of biostatistics. Their sampling and extrapolation methods are incorrect. If Sony announces 20 million PS4s sold to consumers when VGC has it at 18 million sold, it's the same story all over again. There's no point for the existence of VGC's numbers and the site should just do what I suggested above.

It would defeat the whole point of this site which is to provide a more real time picture of sales in the game industry instead of waiting of weeks or months for data from the companies. Its's not perfect as shown by this but, its better than nothing if you want  a picture of sales right after the lanuch of a product.