WW HW + SW week ending 31st Jan

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Jabbamk1 said:

binary solo said:

Actually it does. If the release date isn't updated in the database - which is the actual error here - and the data sample does not have that game among confirmed sales the algorithm will still estimate sales that the data base tells the algorithm it is on the market. This does nothing to prove the sales estimate system is broken or unreliable. But it does seriously call into question the reliability of the game database management.

If you know how statistical modelling works you'd have understood these things, so whatever you do with the market research business it seems statistical modelling isn't it. Is it bad that vgc has recorded sales for a game that isn't out yet? Yes it's bad. But not for the reasons you are suggesting.

The point I'm making is that it's based off no real world data whatsoever (referring to actual DW8:Empires sales). 

What were to happen if the game database did update? Would we have the same number but just it comes out next month? It throws VGChartz entire premise out the window. You can't "track" a product that hasn' been released but it seems VGChartz already has algorithms in place to create numbers out of thin air. 

Anyone claiming VGChartz is a reliable tracker is wrong. It's a bunch of childs guesses. 

then make your own and better site if it can be made by children