VGChartz taught me how to think

[Olivernintentoal]

mjk45 said:

Olivernintentoal said:

I totally remember people saying that! I'm still not sure what they meant

There was a time when not just people on the forum but many in mainstream reporting of video game sales often referenced US or NA sales data in a manner that saw it being used as a substitute for worldwide figures, now some of that was down to media not being informed on the subject or having a US centric mindset, but it was also being used by some people in a deliberate and misleading manner to further certain agendas, this lead to pushback that then saw the term gain  popularity. 

Thanks for the history lesson LOL! I think by the time I was on here people were using it more as a joke. It seems so funny that people would think US represented the world figures. Makes sense that people would deliberately mislead though - seems to be a common trend in not just video games!