Sqrl on 03 July 2008
| bernadettedv said: I think this site looks awesome. But I'm not very educated - exactly how approximate are vgchartz figures? Are they better for old games or new games? Also, I notice that the PC sales figures are often zero - can vgchartz not track PC sales stats and if not why not? Can't vgchartz just get all the figures from NPD and then just publish them?? |
Numbers are typically within 5% of other tracking services for a given territory. Where VGC is better than the other tracking services is that we track worldwide numbers and not just a single region.
The two major Japanese tracking firms are routinely 30% different from each other and they are considered "profressional" where VGC is often bashed for a single month where one console is off by 12-15% in the US from NPD.
The basic point is that everyone (NPD, VGC, MC, etc..) is estimating and errors can and will happen. But for some reason despite the fact that we cover a significantly larger market with an admittedly smaller sample we are held to a much higher standard than everyone else. Tell me how that makes any sense?
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