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Jabbamk1 on 25 January 2015
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Boutros said:
Jabbamk1 said:
Ruler said:

Neogaf huh? And what data is this gaf member using? its vgchartz

Love the hypocrisy of gaming media, vgchartz is not reliable source but gaf member using vgchartz database is.

I'm using NPD. 

This data isn't on Chartz. I don't use data from Chartz. Get your facts right before posting. 

NeoGAF are still hypocrites for putting so much fate in NPD but altogether damning VGC for being less accurate even though they're both just extrapolated estimates of known samples.

Are you honestly saying that VGChartz is just as accurate as NPD, GFK or other market research organisations. I think you forget how quickly the admins on here change the numbers to reflect NPD and GFK numbers once official announcements or leaks are made. I think that shows who the market leaders are for video game tracking. 

Sure, I can agree that NPD is not 100.00% accurate. But it's as accurate as we'll get and is used by manufactuers like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to report on sell through numbers. 

This site is just made up estimates based on extrapolation. Sure it gives a general overview but it's not exactly accurate. Look at the PS4 for example, as far as i'm aware sales were over 19.5m before the end of the year yet they had to adjust it down once Sony announced 18.5m. At least with NPD we know for a fact that more than 90% of the data is hard data. 

As I said, not sure why I use this site as everyone here seems to think VGChartz is 100% accurate. I like your COMG thread btw, really well done on the work and effort you put into that. I really appreciate it.