RUMOR: Disney may be acquiring Sony?

[Landguy]

theprof00 said:
Lot of mistakes in this thread al around.

Someone said vgc is a website dedicated to speculations and parsed words and rumors. This is not true.

1. VGC is a sales analysis site.

2. Some people make it seem like they are really bad at it, but let's not take the bad examples and

3. brand the site as a bunch of people pulling numbers out of a hat.

Seeing as how I made that comment, I will reply to your thoughts by the numbers I inserted:

1.  Yes, it is a sales analysis site.  Thats' the very reason that I personally come here.  But, I know going in that the numbers provided by the Chartz are speculation.  Are there some well thought out ideas/formulas to make those predictions/speculations?  Sure, but it has been proven out that they are indeed very innacurate.  Even NPD isn't 100% accurate.  So, the threads related to NPD are conversations based on estimates.  If you consider that these forums go 24/7/365, and financials(most accurate or true numbers when they are even given) usually only come out quarterly.  So, almost all of the sales related threads are speculation.

2.  Sure, thats the whole point of the forums related to sales, to discuss the numbers and provide speculation as to how they occurred.  Or to grab a small sentence or tweet from someone in the industry and extrapulate(parsed words) as to its hidden meaning.

3. So, for the most part, we are not just pulling nummbers out of a hat - We agree on that.  But, trying to be overly restrictive on the definition what is correct or incorrect when we seldom have actual sales numbers is just what it is.  The forums themselves are not indicative of the site as a whole, but of just what they are.  Almost evey website forum is the same.  There are some people with true insight, some with crazy ideas, and most that are here just for the ride.