He wasn't calling you close-minded and ignorant. He was talking about the people who just say these numbers are made up and that these numbers have no credibility on other forums.

NVM i've read the replies.

also bayonetta had sales when it wasn't released as well in top weekly.

It was released in Japan 2 weeks ago......

@ NanakiXI - are you even for real? Nordlead attitude is questionable, yes, but putting that aside ioi is acting exactly like I would expect for a site owner to react when speaking with another post.
Hell, try to think if you were in his place, spending hours on these chart numbers and them a random member point out a small mistake and opens a big thread telling your numbers are a lie. Because that's what his guesstimates claims actually were. Damn, on ioi's place I would be completely infuriated and have banned Chirzum the moment he started arguing calling ioi an ass and such. According to his own rules he could very well have done it I guess.

@Chrizum: Do yourself a favor and stop talking, all you had to say was you didn't mean to be rude and leave it at that, right now you're acting like a jerk, so quit while you are ahead

I must say, that does really annoy me too. I was reading an article in the newspaper which said MW 2 had sold 4.7m copies, not even stating where they were sold, and so when people see 7m here, they just assume that it is rubbish. {I had a 5 minute rant about this article, in fact, I rant about everything written in newspapers about games because they are so poorly informed and often just plain wrong, they claimed some said that MW 2 was the most violent game ever, certainly something none who are gamers who say, especially given that the amount of gore has decreased from WaW - see I am prone to ranting!} Same with NPD, people come here and see the numbers being off, and so for some reason there is an assumption that NPD are 100% right, and also forget about the rest fo Americas. It will just take a while for people to understand I guess... However, I must say I feel that the information about sales in the general press has been increasing, and some of that is due to VGC, so I certainly hope you keep on improving the site and get some people to understand. Ideally, the companies would all release shipment and estimated sales (they must have some information?) {and budgetting} data, but I doubt that will ever happen

On a side point, do you get the same amount of PC data as you do console data? Is there any reason not to have PC sales other than lack of downloads, or is there less info?

I doubt anyone will object if you lay down the law on your own site (unless you start banning people because they have the letters i and o in their nickname :p). Nevertheless, moderators and admins should also be tapped on the wrists for things that regular members are not allowed to do as well. That much is needed for a forum to work properly in that regard.

Umm so let's say I let a stranger into my house and he starts walking through my house and taking food out of the fridge and sleeping in my bed without asking, does that sound right? Of course not, I'm going to set rules for him, like you have to ask me if you can have something in the fridge or use my bathroom, or sleep in my bed. It's my house and my rules that other people (but me) has to follow.

Also Square-Enix seems to think VG Chartz is a fairly reliable website if there willing to use VG Chartz as a source for some of there numbers.

@ gilgamesh: A cop hired to keep the peace still can't break the law himself though.

interesting. They will probably fix that