In 5 days, VGChartz latest sales will be a month old

[bigjon]

Ka-pi96 said:

bigjon said:
Back in 07-09 I remember US and Others were updated BEFORE media create and famitsu. Japan used to be the last numbers we waited on. Others were done on Monday or Tuesday, NA tues or wed, and Japan Thursday or Friday. Back then people talked about sales a lot more, now by the time we get numbers they are old news so we focus on resolution and metacritic.....

Sounds like it was a much more interesting forum back then...

It was if you like data and numbers. People were doing graphs with trend analysis, discussing in depth factors affecting sales, discussing sales of games from previous gens, people were doing sales predictions by actually using data and weighing factors in. Now it's like well this game sold this much last gen, it was good and people like it so I will predict a little better next gen, it's seems these day people pull most predictions out of their asses without actually doing any analytics.