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Mr Puggsly said:
Aura7541 said:

Based on what kind of information and trends? Specificity, Puggs. Specificity.

Furthermore, the bolded is yet another strawman fallacy. Expressing skepticism =/= Feeling the available information is bad. However, even if I bit on the fallacy, I don't need to "feel" that the information available is bad when the NPD threads explicitly show that VGC's software numbers aren't reliable. That is a conclusion based on empirical data, which is rather indistputable.

I'm happy to be proven wrong. However, you have not provided sufficient evidence and it makes things worse when you were given several opportunities to step up to the plate.

VGChartz data is often adjusted for NPD data and its generally a pretty good reflection of how a game is doing, even if not 100% accurate.

You want to proven wrong but you haven't proven anything either. You're just here as a skeptic. Frankly, my assumption could even be low.

Aquamarine has stated in one of the NPD threads that data for old games, i.e. last-gen games, are pretty close. However, data for recent games are not accurate and ROTR is rather young. Considering Aqua has access to NPD's numbers and therefore, is able to make direct comparisons to VGC's data, I am inclined to take her word for it.

In addition, the burden of proof lies on the person making the positive claim, so to accuse me for being a skeptic is to accuse me for approaching this conversation in the correct manner. I cannot say the same for you, however. It's also rather telling when your arguments are reliant on assumptions since by definition, assumptions are conclusions without evidence.