Discuss the state of the forums and find solutions

[zorg1000]

trunkswd said:

zorg1000 said:

The activity on this site is a fraction of what it used to be. I joined almost 14 years ago after lurking for a year or two and there was just way more people making threads and posting.

Also, this site used to provide way more sales data. We used to get weekly hardware and software charts broken down by region.

We had no way of tracking digital software sales, which is the main reason we stopped doing weekly software estimates. We now only report sales numbers (and total number of players) from official sources. That does come in more infrequently with Capcom, Nintendo, and Take-Two the best at providing updated numbers every quarter.

As far as hardware there were 2 main reasons for the change to reporting them monthly rather than every week. 1. Weekly estimates would be less accurate that would require adjustments once monthly data came in (ie. Circana/NPD), so doing them monthly meant the initial estimates would be more accurate. 2. I was getting burnt out doing the estimates every week for well over half a decade and having to adjust the numbers rather often. Now I mainly only need to adjust once the quarterly earnings report come in. 

I totally understand the reasoning, it’s largely out of your control, but still a site where the main focus is sales data getting less sales data is inevitably going to result in a decline in activity.