VGChartz taught me how to think

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Olivernintentoal said:

mjk45 said:

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!

There was a guy here once talking about US sales as if they were Worldwide sales.

When asked about it, he explained that he was using the term "globally" as in "globally in the US".

It became an internal joke.

Still remember someone made an edited world map with the USA flag all over it with Globally in the US written on it, lol.