Wall Street analysts comments on the NPD v VGChartz debate

[TheBigFatJ]

dallas said:

ioi said:

Well without making the situation worse, the reason VGC and NPD aren't, it seems, able to get on is because NPD hate our very existence and are trying to do everything possible (meister is from NPD) to discredit us with the same old tired and inaccurate lies time after time.

The animosity is definitely one-way and is for one reason - because we are doing a good job and they see us as competition, despite the fact we are neither trying nor succeeding in competing directly - we offer a very different service as the writer of this article perfectly sums up and the guys commenting miss as always.

 

Ioi, first of all I would like to thank you for your comments on this situation. It definitely helps when you and the mods can give some insight as to why we are seeing such a hubub in the various media floating around. Next, I'm not really sure if the people on this website really care whether meister is correct or not; nobody gives a flip about the methodology........as long as the sales numbers given are accurate and I think that you all are doing a good job with the accuracy side of things as well as providing a top-notch community for gamers worldwide. Thanks.

You or I may not care all that much about the methodology, but people who need to know that the sales data is reasonably accurate and that best practices are taken when getting the sales data (or at least practices they understand) need to understand VGC's methodology.  It's very important to have it in the clear, which is why the NPD would want to cast some doubt about VGC's methods.