1. HARDWARE SHIPMENTS - The "Worldwide Hardware Shipments" table needs to be updated. It's found in World -> Hardware Shipments. Until March 2007, it was updated each half a year. The date when it was exacly 6 months since last update, September 2007, has passed a long time ago, and there aren't still any newer shipments than from March 2007. Please, update this, it shouldn't be a bigger problem, and I'm quite interested of the hardware shipments the last half of the last year. Before March 2007, it was updated each six months.

2. CONSOLE DATABASE - This shouldn't be so difficult either. Simply do a "Console Database" like the Game Database where you see:

- The name (ofc.)

- Publisher and date of release

- Total number of units sold worldwide

- Launch sales for each region (first 3 weeks)

- Console pitcure

- The number of hits

- "I own this console!"

- The regional bar chart (both percentage of the total share and units sold)

- A rating system

- The "three lines chart" (units sold each week for each region)

- "Compare sales with other consoles"

- Summary

- "People who own this console"

- Screenshots (yes, it's necessary) 

- Comments 

- Add a comment possibility 

That's it! With other words: exactly as the games, but consoles instead. Personaly I think that this idea isn't that bad. What do you think about this idea? Handhelds are of course also counted in this. Let's see which console will get the most hits and the best rating!

3. FORUM SEARCHING - You probably had a reason for deleting this function. It was usable, but not so important, ehhh... forget about it!

4. MEMBER BANNING - What is this? Almost every "fanboy"-member is banned! "They need to express their feelings for their favorite." It can't be a forum without rules, but at who can we laugh on now, if all idiots are banned?!?! I never said this, forget about this thing too! Instead, I can just tell you that the Predictions League doesn't work right know (Error 404: Not found). I don't know if it's my PC or if it's the servers problem, just so you know... By the way, a Console Database would be great, with all acient consoles included, especially for someone that has a great Game Database! You could for example add consoles that sold less than 100k, and that no one ever heard about, like HyperScan (Mattel, October 2006). Well, that was it!

What about this, give 1000vg$ to the best idea of the week, 500vg$ to the 2nd, 250vg$ to the 3rd etc. You can change week to something else like the prices. Not because I want to get it...

Here's some of my suggestions:

1. Put a space in your profile to list all the consoles you have.

2. Allow you to organize the games in your "Games" section.

1) Yes

2) will be done soon according to ioi. ("Consoles I own" was my suggestion)

3) It was broken, I think.

4) There's always a reason for bans, most likely personal attacks on other members.

1. I have, twice, pm'd ioi about this. I think he is on it, but I have no confirmation.

2. I already in works, if I remember correctly.

3. Old version kinda sucked. Should be based on a search box that looks at the title OR the posts of a thread. This could be selectable via a drop down box or ???

4. If you go through a banned persons "view all" post history you will always see why they were banned. If you really want to know.

The most important thing is to get rid of those shady cellphone ringtone commercials.

Having flashy intrusive ads on a site that wants to be known for it's professionalism and accurate numbers is contradicting. I know it's hard to get some decent ads on the net but you really need to fix this. I know the majority of the young members here won't care but the big boys do.

Another ideas:

Now, when the vg$ is introduced, VGC can simply make a "richest member search" based on the top poster search, just changing the value. A "most viewed/popular member search" function would also be great to have!

I'm pretty sure the reason the hardware shipments have not been update is because Sony changed it's method of reporting shipments after March 31.  So right now, it shows 5.5 million for March, but in the changed methodology of sell through to retail, rather than production, the September sell through to retail (i.e. shipped console total) was about the same.

If you're curious though, here is what I have:

The italicized numbers are my estimates, other numbers are publicly announced lifetime to date shipments to retail worldwide.

Vgchartz has already improved for me
I haven't seen that
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thing all week

When I click on the link "Predictions League" (http://www.vgchartz.com/predictions) from the User Control Panel the following message shows up:

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The requested URL /predictions was not found on this server.