Ruh-roh: Simon Carless of Gamasutra/Game Set Watch analyzes VGChartz...

[NJ5]

jlauro said:

NJ5 said:

jlauro said:
The article is not that negative. It's not likely to change the opinion of those who already frequent the site, and as they say any publicity is good publicity.

You could also say, there is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is NOT being talked about.

It's not that negative? At least at some points, it's quite explicitly saying that VGChartz gets no data from retailers. That would mean this site is a sham.

How is that not being negative?

 

 

Sorry, I must of missed that part? I seen where it say it includes "Sampled direct sell-through data" among other things.

OK, I'll quote some of the places where he says that:

"what VGChartz actually is - a strange mixture of a prediction market (as consensus prediction site TheSimExchange is) and a retroactive, but non-credited reflection of charts that have historically been known for having more concrete data"

"it's clear from the Iron Man example that they simply do not have the direct sale retail contacts to extrapolate unexpected but nonetheless true results. And if a title spikes but is outside public data, VGChartz will never catch it."

That's quite explicit, especially the first one. EDIT - on a second read, both are equally explicit (I was just skimming before).

PS: I just noticed that in other parts he contradicts what he's saying here, which basically means this article is tripe. Not even the author is sure what he believes.