I've been complaining for quite some time now that three weeks ago, Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS4) released in the UK; yet it registered 0 sales here on VGChartz:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=171844

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41588/UK/

TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - INDIVIDUAL FORMATS (UNITS), WEEK ENDING 9 November 2013

LW		TW			Title	Format	Label	Publisher
-		1			CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS	XB360	ACTIVISION	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
-		2			CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS	PS3	ACTIVISION	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
2		3			BATTLEFIELD 4	XB360	EA GAMES	ELECTRONIC ARTS
1		4			ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG	XB360	UBISOFT	UBISOFT
6		5			FIFA 14	XB360	EA SPORTS	ELECTRONIC ARTS
-		6			CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS	PS4	ACTIVISION	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

1	Call of Duty: Ghosts (X360) Activision, Shooter	493,844	493,844	1
2	Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS3) Activision, Shooter	264,924	264,924	1
3	Battlefield 4 (X360) Electronic Arts, Shooter	38,052	116,298	2
4	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (X360) Ubisoft, Action	31,543	119,299	2
5	FIFA 14 (X360) Electronic Arts, Sports	29,342	894,506	7
6	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (PS3) Ubisoft, Action	20,595	77,541	2

(It also charted the next week at #36 and still wasn't counted).

We've just been given the German numbers for last week.  You'd expect it to somewhat match the official numbers provided by Mediabiz for the region.  Which it does; expect it completely ignores all the PS4 releases and just ranks by every surrounding release instead:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=173260

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41602/Germany/

01 (NE) PS4 FIFA 14 (ELECTRONIC ARTS
02 (NE) PC ASSASSIN'S CREED IV - BLACK FLAG (UBISOFT)
03 (NE) PS4 ASSASSIN'S CREED IV - BLACK FLAG (UBISOFT)
04 (NE) 3DS THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK BETWEEN WORLDS (NINTENDO)
05 (NE) XBO FORZA MOTORSPORT 5 (MICROSOFT)

1	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (PC) Unknown, Action	37,340	37,340	1
2	The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS) Nintendo, Action	33,084	33,084	1
3	Forza Motorsport 5 (XOne) Microsoft Game Studios, Racing	30,441	30,441	1
4	Battlefield 4 (XOne) Electronic Arts, Shooter	28,617	28,617	1
5	Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS3) Activision, Shooter	26,902	293,591	3

I'm just wondering if we're ever going to get any feedback on what's happening here.  My presumption is that they're just going to all all the previous weeks sales into one massive week for PS4... but part of me is also beginning to believe that they won't do that and will just count week 1 sales.

And regardless, the games actually released and we haven't counted them at all.  I know VGC is just estimated numbers, but I don't see the harm in tracking accurately when we're given valid sources providing the information on a silver platter.

If they choose to add all the previous week's sales into one massive week: that'll be incorrect; and make week 1 sales seem more inflated than they actually are.  If they don't do anything and only count week 1 sales; then that's wrong and multiple games will be undertracked.

So, I'm posting this mostly on the off-chance that we get some feedback about what's going on.  Will the charts be fixed at a later date?  Will all the sales be added into one week?  Will the sales never be counted?  If so, why?

Oh, I agree.  I've already discussed with you my irritation at VGC including download cards for Wii Party U in Japan but not in the case of other games.  And I think we need a whole separate explanation about how VGC is going to handle digital tracking going forward.

It's just, in the here and now, we're given a good source of how software sales are in UK/Germany and they're actively ignored.  And for all that VGC's tracking is off, as a measure of historic sales figures it tends to hold up a little better once the dust has settled and they've had chance to make adjustments to correct figures.

But if they're getting it wrong straight off the bat despite the fact that we're given the ranking + estimates to help fill in the numbers, then that doesn't bode well for "down the line" numbers.

I read an article on here stating that they lump all pre-release games into the week 1 sales. So that is what Vgchartz does.

/crazythread ;)

I agree... the software tracking is so bad that a game selling 1.2M on physic copy is "reported" (here read believed and hoped by crazy person) to have total selling of 5M when digital is included.

Sauce!

Standby. I shall find it!

It happened with LBP Vita, which had its street date broken.  Slightly different than these games which had an official release date; just before the console came out.

If ps3-sales finds his source that they're lumping all pre-release sales into week 1, though, that answers my question (although it certainly doesn't solve the problem).

Can't find article.... But it was there. Take my word for it. If we can't trust others, what has this world come to?

It would certainly explain everything.

I'm going to be watching those first-week sales extremely closely, though...

I think everything will be sum in the next week for EU.