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Aquamarine said: But that's really easy to solve. If VG Chartz could establish a relationship with Walmart, Target, GameStop, Best Buy, and Amazon, they would effectively become as relevant as NPD. They would have 90% of the sales in the market. Now of course, 90% accuracy isn't as accurate as NPD, mind you, but it's still pretty damn close (NPD is 95% accurate). Close enough that lots of institutions would start paying for them. Hell, we'd buy a subscription to them. |
I think you and I both know this isn't going to happen any time soon.
At the moment VGChartz numbers are all over the place and laughably wrong in some cases. They simply do not have the tools or experience to track the US market, let alone the worldwide market.
A lot of people always forget how VGChartz started, it was originally a site that posted NPD numbers but once NPD got wind they contacted Brett Walton to tell him to stop. In response he started making up his own numbers based on "statistical trend fitting of historical sales performance" which is hardly the most accurate way to track new physical game sales at retail. There are countless examples of how VGChartz have been incorrect in the past and have had to quickly adjust numbers to match publicly available shipment or sell through data. I'm sorry to say but the majority of numbers on this website are wildly off base and everyone in the industry knows it.
Perhaps if Brett was to admit this and take steps to improve VGChartz data collection methodology then maybe they would be taken more seriously.
