Weekly hardware 7 March 2015

[Burek]

JoeAncelotti said:

Burek said:

See, that's exactly the reason why I hate commenting on these weekly sales, and the reason why I don't take VGC numbers seriously. They just publish any random number, then weeks and months later go back and stealth edit past data. 

Nowhere and never do they admit their mistakes, and transparently show the adjustments. It's always best to wait for NPD, it is monthly, but at the rate VGC publishes numbers, it's not that much slower. And at least it can be taken at face value.

Yeah true, but I think somewhere on this website there is a section that says their numbers are just estimates and they don't represent any actual factual numbers.

Of course, I know that they are estimates. But their margin of error is so huge that they fall more into a "guess" category. I said many times, VGC is a great tool for archival data, but current numbers are usually terribly wrong. Especially with software, they are usually so far out of ballpark that you need to take a cab to get to the game.