I feel exactly the same. I know I have very little posts and have been registered for a very short time but I have been watching this site since early 2007. I love yalls forums but this sucks. I watched through the early 360 domination, the ps3 picking up pace and wii total domination. Now I can't even see all the ps4 domination. :(

You're right about that. The only interesting sales discussions last gen were PS3/360 because those were the consoles that were closely competing. DS was killing PSP, but not to the extent of 3DS killing PSV. Wii was initially so far ahead that week to week the story was always the same. Then later it fell away to be far enough behind week to week that it lost relevance in hardware sales.

Now the interesting discussions are around USA and UK because those are the only significant markets where there is hardware competition. And we get sales information directly for the USA outside of VGC, and we get UK information weekly for software and a few times per year for hardware. Japan is sort of interesting becuase there is competition between PS4 and Wii U. But Japan as a console market is a shadow of what it once was, and is therefore inherently less interesting.

So perahps the era of significant interest in game console sales is itself waning.

It isn't for me.

I really hope the sales numbers come back. I like the community and discussions, but I like seeing the numbers too. It`s a good way to gauge how the industry is doing. Without it, we`re kinda in the dark...

More or less this, I came for both numbers and the community, numerical data started slowing down to a complete crawl and I've accepted that the data won't change as much if at all like it used to, all I'm here for now is the community which I feel is shaping for the better in some areas.

Topics that get discussed a lot are mostly the controversial ones sadly, threads that intend to spark actual meaningful civil discussion tend to die off within a day or two, PC threads die before days end lol.

I am a little bit saddened that users have split themselves into 3 factions though, we shouldn't have to and I know it's entirely optional but in the longrun it's not doing anyone any favours and just ends up sticking to a tribalistic mentality.

Still at least I made some cool friends on here in such a short time and I'm grateful for that.

Though I would miss it, it would ultimately be a good thing for me if the sales side of this website died, because then it would no longer be an distraction for me. I'd turn up once a month for the NPD thread and that would be it, more or less. The only time I come to VGC is to see if the numbers have been updated, and scan the hot topics and articles list to see if there is something interesting. If there's nothing on the hot topics I'm gone in less than 60 seconds.