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firebush03 9 hours ago

I just started wandering around the site, and came across a list of all VGChartz users and their "points". Some interesting observations I made:

(1.) I have the 276th highest "VGChartz Point" count on VGChartz of all its users. (@Machina is the user with the highest number of points, and is in fact the only user with over 1,000,000!)
(2.) There are (as of typing) 132,895 VGChartz accounts to have ever been created.
(3.) Of the 30 users with the highest total "VGChartz Points", only 6 have been active in the past month.

Anybody else have some cool facts about this site? I know there's also this thread, the first thread ever created on the site AFAIK.



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Zkuq 7 hours ago

If you open your profile and look at the address there, you'll notice a number before your username. I bet you that's an ID that is something like 1 for the first user ever created and is then increased by one for every new user. Your ID is over 500,000 and you registered over three years ago, which would probably put the total number of users ever created at well over 500,000. Many of those users have probably been deleted for one reason or another, but for the total number of users ever created, I think that's a pretty good guess. Those ~130,000 accounts are probably the ones that still remain. It's a curiously large difference, but there's probably a good explanation (or several) for that. I wonder if the user list includes banned users as well - if not, that would probably explain a lot.



trunkswd 7 hours ago

Machina works hard keeping the GameDB updated, which gives you a lot of points. 

New leaderboards like the one for most badges would be cool. So you can more easily see most posts, points, etc.  

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/leaderboard/



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube channel discussing gaming sales and news, as well as posting random gaming content. Follow me on Bluesky.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

Wman1996 6 hours ago
firebush03 said:

I just started wandering around the site, and came across a list of all VGChartz users and their "points". Some interesting observations I made:

(1.) I have the 276th highest "VGChartz Point" count on VGChartz of all its users. (@Machina is the user with the highest number of points, and is in fact the only user with over 1,000,000!)
(2.) There are (as of typing) 132,895 VGChartz accounts to have ever been created.
(3.) Of the 30 users with the highest total "VGChartz Points", only 6 have been active in the past month.

Anybody else have some cool facts about this site? I know there's also this thread, the first thread ever created on the site AFAIK.

I wonder how many are still active in 2026. 4,000? 5,000? Maybe 10,000?



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Switch: 159 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million, then 161 million)

PS5: 116 million (was 105 million, then 115 million, then 122 million)

Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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curl-6 4 hours ago

Where can we view the users by points, out of curiosity?
I wanna see where I rank.

Another stat: the forum has 8,864,485 posts across 250,795 threads as of typing, so the average thread has 35 posts.



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trunkswd 3 hours ago
curl-6 said:

Where can we view the users by points, out of curiosity?
I wanna see where I rank.

Another stat: the forum has 8,864,485 posts across 250,795 threads as of typing, so the average thread has 35 posts.

To view by points: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/members.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&type=&order=Points

You can change the "Order By"



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube channel discussing gaming sales and news, as well as posting random gaming content. Follow me on Bluesky.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

curl-6 3 hours ago
trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

Where can we view the users by points, out of curiosity?
I wanna see where I rank.

Another stat: the forum has 8,864,485 posts across 250,795 threads as of typing, so the average thread has 35 posts.

To view by points: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/members.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&type=&order=Points

You can change the "Order By"

Cheers!

Hey, looks like I am #5 unless I am reading this all wrong. 

Notice my posting average has dropped under 8 posts a day to 7.91, better up my game!



Zkuq 3 hours ago
trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

Where can we view the users by points, out of curiosity?
I wanna see where I rank.

Another stat: the forum has 8,864,485 posts across 250,795 threads as of typing, so the average thread has 35 posts.

To view by points: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/members.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&type=&order=Points

You can change the "Order By"

Dang, that's a lot of familiar names... and it's been much longer since many of them have been online than I remembered.



trunkswd 3 hours ago
curl-6 said:
trunkswd said:

To view by points: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/members.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&type=&order=Points

You can change the "Order By"

Cheers!

Hey, looks like I am #5 unless I am reading this all wrong. 

Notice my posting average has dropped under 8 posts a day to 7.91, better up my game!

Time to work on getting to #4! 7.91 posts per day is pretty good though. I'm at 1.87. 



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube channel discussing gaming sales and news, as well as posting random gaming content. Follow me on Bluesky.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

firebush03 2 hours ago
Zkuq said:

If you open your profile and look at the address there, you'll notice a number before your username. I bet you that's an ID that is something like 1 for the first user ever created and is then increased by one for every new user. Your ID is over 500,000 and you registered over three years ago, which would probably put the total number of users ever created at well over 500,000. Many of those users have probably been deleted for one reason or another, but for the total number of users ever created, I think that's a pretty good guess. Those ~130,000 accounts are probably the ones that still remain. It's a curiously large difference, but there's probably a good explanation (or several) for that. I wonder if the user list includes banned users as well - if not, that would probably explain a lot.

Ah, you are right! Just checked the “Newest Users” list, and sure enough, their profile URL number goes up in order. I wonder what 130k figure represents then? Perhaps users who haven’t been banned? That’s all I can figure.

Also, if you change the URL number to 1, you can find the first user ever created on VGChartz: @VGChartzAdmin.