As far as I'm aware, all data on the game pages is rounded to the nearest ten thousand units.  As such, weekly sales figures are essentially indiscernable for games selling 5k or less.

Even for games selling in the tens of thousands per week, if it's still below 100k, you won't get a very accurate representation of the figures via a game's dedicated page.

21 now. I came to VGChartz when www.nexgenwars.com stopped updating sales data, andthat is still one of the two big draw cards of this site for me.

I can understand the reasoning behind VGChartz Pro, I think that Brett has every right to make some money from providing extra features and analysis to paying customers.

But taking away features that were free is never a popular move.

Surely the sales of the 41st - 200th games are of much much more interest to the 4% (forum dwellers) rather than those who would pay for VGChartz pro. By all means give them some extra analysis tools and reports. But not this one feature. This one feature that we were promised would not be taken from us.

I would never expect any more accuracy.  For a game only selling that much, you shouldn't need to look any more than every month anyways, as it is insignificant what the sales to the 100 are.  You can look every 10 weeks and see for instance it averaged 5k per week or something along those lines.

I hope there's a Pro Membership available to me like other normal site/forum members

Well, I'd like to know if it's still pulling a good 5k consistantly, or if it's dropped into the mere hundreds, ya know.

For more niche games like Tales, those numbers can mean a lot.

Same story for me haha i remember being there when the site had 360 like at 6.20m something for 360 and then it started updating ps3 and wii but i somehow ended up stumbling on this site and wow i loved it from the start especially since its sales were definately more updated and also because they showed software as well.

Oh, I know exactly what you mean, but it can still be done in all reality.  You just have to see how long it takes for a game to move by 10k sales.  If its taking 2 weeks each time, its at 5k per week.  If its taking 50 weeks to move 10k units higher each time, then its in the lower 100's.

IMO. That's quite affordable if not cheap, in term of corporate pricing, that is.

Ummmm. you do know that introducing PSN didn't take anything away from PSN users right? So the changes in VGC are nothing like the PSN/PSNplus.

I think only giving access to top 40 SW per week is too gimped for what we used to get. Heck lurkers used to get top 50, now active members don't even get what lurkers used to? I think top 100, or if not top 75, is reasonable for us. The forum community is partly what makes VGC VGC (warts and all). Our site traffic is what earns VGC its advertising revenue. So it's not like we're just freeloading.

Damn, im more missinformed than i thought lol