Wait until next week for NPD's July console sales numbers. It could be interesting to see the differences between VGC and NPD sales data. ioi will adjust the numbers very quickly like he always does every month NPD numbers announce ioi changes his numbers to match them.

Surprise Surprise. The world is full of hypocrites. Instead of criticising we should enjoy the difference in sales sites figures. Hey we do not live in that sort of world. When the numbers are posted there will be a huge debate like every month on the forums. Groundhog Day.

lol, cant like them more :P

hehe.. "a huge difference for a weekly tracking website"!!

You do realize ioi does this on his own right? and that you don't pay for having access to this weekly data?

 ioi has been inline more times that he hasn't, he's system isn't perfect, small variations in his data can greatly affect his data and more sources surely would help... ... ... WAIT A MINUTE!! You work for a game retail store, why don't you provide him some of your store data and help him out?? Quit complaining if you are able to help!!

As a Sony fan, im not impressed with the PS3 numbers from the last few weeks.

BUT

Moaning about the numbers being wrong isnt the way out of this. If we assume the PS3 numbers are wrong, how do we know the numbers from every previous week arent wrong? If thats the case, why are we even on a sales orientated site?

The numbers arent exact, but they sure as hell aint gonna be a mile off like some people are hoping

Is this the same VGC that said they were rather close to NPD numbers last time when there were rather large discrepancies which were brushed off as "differences of 10% are acceptable"?

As soon as someone wonders whether NPD will be quite different (in favour of a system or not, doesn't really matter), others jump to the defense of VGC and point the fanboy-finger too.

If VGC admitted to changing certain numbers because they noticed some differences in numbers, or if they made their calculation method known (or more clear), this kind of debate wouldn't be so widespread.

Of course fans will wonder more if they see weird numbers or if they are surprised with numbers, you can't expect them to go "hmm, do you think these numbers are right" when they are in agreement with their own judgment and other numbers.  It's when it's "out of the ordinary" that people start to wonder, it's their right and eventually they will be proven right or wrong. 
Going "ah, only when things go wrong (for you), you complain".... is just stupid, because that's the normal procedure.

I still have to see a "hmm, we'll look into it" or "could be, but according to us..."-approach from VGC, it's always immediately the "attack something / someone else instead of wait-and-see or could-be-we-are-wrong".

oohh wrong, MS had sent a press release a couple days before hand warning of shortages and that NPD results would not look favorable.

Oh forgot to mention earlier...

Just like KingofWale forgot to mention... He's CANADIAN... ...

*looks for flashbulbs lighting over peoples avatars on why he's saying no supply issue

nah, of course not, those advertisment on the site is just to make it look more legit, it certain doesn't not provide this site with money whatsoever.

oh, FYI, I did offer to provide data and contacted mod for it through PM, but never got a reply.

I'm sort of interested just because of the disparity between amazon's numbers and this site. I don't base overall sales based on amazon, but when the PS3 has been the best selling system on there for the last 3 weeks, and this site is reporting a MASSIVE drop off in sales for the PS3, it just makes me want to look at as many sources as possible to see what is accurate.