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

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DMeisterJ said:
He does have a point with the MGS4 article though. It was 1.5, then changed to 1.3, then ioi said it was more like 1.1 in the comments section of the sales data. That wasn't a good look. And neither was the whole Iron Man thing. But this guy is comparing NPD to VGC, but doesn't know that VGC covers all of NA, while NPD only covers the U.S. So he has to account for that.

And ioi does adjust. But I think he read too much into the adjusting of numbers.

I don't really know what to make of the article. He does make a good point of the fact that ioi freely adjusts data, but he doesn't make sense of the point. I'm confuzzed.

I agree, the MGS4 thing was too rushed, and it will probably be a lesson for future game launches.

Nevertheless, this article is very poor. The only thing of value are those cherry-picked examples, which show some problems in VGChartz's methodology, but are by no means enough to warrant some of the conclusions the article makes (and later unmakes).