From the sounds of things as long as he hides under a blanket he will be too much trouble to kill and therefore safe.

Edit - now that I think about it, this could be a win-win for coktoe, if he doesn't like his neighbors he can just hide under a blanket and not warn his neighbors ...

It's not just here, a lot of gaming forums I visit are on the decline. I'm on IGN as well and the Nintendo discussion section there is absolutely glacial compared to, say, 4-5 years ago.

Resetera on the other hand, is still very active, and their moderation is extremely strict. Not sure what their secret is, how they manage to thrive under such conditions.

Even so you are still right. This “interesting” bit will only last for a week or two, until everything dies down again or a new standard has been set. Then it’s same old same old again.

There’s only so much times you can say;

”Congrats Switch!” or “Wow PS4 is doing so well for it’s age!”

The sales threads basically write themselves. The software threads didn’t really have this problem as something new would be released regularly and results were much less predictable. Which meant much more discussion beforehand, and more afterwards to talk about surprising results, in higher frequency.

Why should people still visit this site when it's main product (sales charts) are no longer provided?

Either VGC will have to drastically reinvent itself, or it will die a slow death, which would be a shame. But if I'm correct the owner doesn't really care anymore, so that's not so good.

What I've been noticing these past few years is that Nintendo-related content has been taking up more and more space on VGC. I remember the first time I became aware of it was back in 2016 where every Nintendo fan and his mom were making duplicate threads about Switch and BotW rumors.

While that in itself is perfectly fine and somewhat natural considering how awesome the Switch and its games are doing, I think that it limits the potential and appeal of the site. People dropping by searching for PC/PS/XB-related content won't necessarily stick around for long.

You could say that a solution would be for people to start making more varied threads but I simply don't think that VGC has the number of PC/PS/XB-leaning users required to create and nurture such threads. It had 3-4 years ago but not anymore.

As of this writing, only 2 out of 14 "Hot topics" (VGC's bread and butter) are related to PC/PS/XB. The rest are made up of 6 Nintendo-related threads, 3 NSFW, 1 political, 1 movie and 1 general thread.

http://imgur.com/gallery/cjJqMFS

This forum can offer more than just sales charts though.
Its as good a place as any for topics related to gameing, news, reviews ect.

We need to be super carefull with bans though, like retention of users is more important now than ever.
Once too few users are makeing use of it, it ll snowball, and vise versa.

Im with you though, I'd rather see VGCs try to reinvent itself, than slowly fade away.

Does VGCs have a offical youtube channel? where reviews, or bits of news could be released as well?
And it could all have links, leading back to these forums?
Maybe a Twitter? I wouldnt want to try running it, but if someone is up for it, it could be a way to garner new attention, and users.

I've been on NeoGaf for the last little bit. I suppose my issue with this site is that it's not as clean and easy to navigate in my opinion. I rarely come by anymore because of it.

Yesterday saw NPD rankings get released and Nintendo announced a new sales milestone for Switch.

Topics that used to get hundreds of replies go completely unnoticed now, this site is close to dead.

No matter the state of VGC you allways will be a pansy to me

There's just not many interesting discussions going on.

Part of it may be because there's no real console war anymore.