naznatips said: According to http://www.alexa.com/ GameSetWatch was tracking 1/7 the site hits of VGC at the last recorded benchmark in June... these people aren't exactly anything special. Sales data is a guideline, not facts. This is true about any tracker on the market. We provide a guide... a rough estimate. A general idea of the direction of sales that can be used to determine more about the market. As long as we are under official shipment numbers we are doing a reasonable job of showing people the direction of the market. |
one thing to add to this, NPD doesn't get Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and I believe Target's sales data. And they are 4 of the, if not thee, biggest retailers in America so all anyone can do is make an educated guess and even though ioi doesn't get nearly the data npd does, his numbers are within reasonable margins on most games of the "all mighty" npd's data.