| bowserthedog said:
I'm basing everything on vgchartz. 2015 january vgchartz were up year over year worldwide. And so far 100,000 in feb for 2 weeks. I take comparing vg chartz to vg chartz at face value. If i didn't respect vg chartz i'd probably not talk about game sales on vgchartz. |
The older VGC numbers don't exist in a vacuum. Before NPD, VGC had Wii U at 86k in January 2014. Now it is at 58.6k. Just because they are both on VGC doesn't mean the numbers are reached in identical manners.
I think you'll find most people on VGC tend to take the numbers with a grain of salt. For instance in the thread for the most recent week's numbers the word 'undertracked' appears 18 times in just the first page. 'Overtracked' is there 6 times. Even on this thread there was someone claiming a piece of software was immensely undertracked. Though in this case VGC seems to be closer to the truth. Despite this people still discuss sales on VGC because it is a community of people interested in sales, and VGC can be a convenient archive of older sales data (though I wouldn't put 100% faith in that either. Various things can screw up older numbers and generally nobody is going back through them to check for errors).
