Missing sales data

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ferret1094 on 26 December 2007

Why are so many games missing their "others" sales? I looked at a chart ranking Wii games according to sales. A lot of them seemed very low and when I clicked on the titles I discovered some of them were missing "others" sales data even though they've been out here (Europe) for ages. Why is this?

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http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=637

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Sky Render on 26 December 2007

European software charts didn't start going up until a month or two ago. That's why.

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Neos on 26 December 2007

If you can call all the companies and ask them how many copies sold of their games okay sure go ahead, but sadly thats not possible. Most publishers/developers have never released an accurate estimate of how many they think the particular games have sold. Also, european software trackers only release charts in the form of a top 10 or 15, not with actual numbers behind it.

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