| Smeags said: We're at a point that we have daily numbers for the film industry in great sites like BoxOfficeMojo, and weekly numbers for Japanese gaming sales from Famitsu and Media Create. Heck, we even have weekly listings of many European markets (while not providing exact numbers, they are invaluable nonetheless). It's sad to see the North American numbers being taken hostage like this, forcing folks to pay large sums of money to get information like that. We're at a time where VGChartz has the opportunity to become more and more relevant in this market, and I hope that ioi sees this opportunity and takes it. |
I'm gonna chime in on this, VGChartz could explode in traffic if ioi now makes a big effort to get more data points from more retailers to increase tracking accuracy. So please ioi, take this opportunity to both strengthen and rebuild this site's reputation as a sales tracker, and remove NPD's monopoly on US sales numbers. Heck, it would benefit ioi financially to do this because the traffic would increase, meaning more ad money. This would be the perfect finish to the undergoing VGC reform lead by trucks. If ioi does his job and gets a better ad-provider (let's be honest, the current one sucks) I will gladly disable adblock for VGC, and I bet others would do the same, and if he increases the accuracy of his tracking, a lot more people would visit this site I bet.
