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Interesting. Im just wondering when some of the hundreds of lurkers will sign up for an account.



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Well, we will get it throught TheSimExchange cashout. SE can't work without it, but the step itself is quite intresting.

 



That's okay, I can pay for the figures, and then secretly meet up with ioi in the back streets of New York wearing a Trench Coat.



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i bet gaf is going crazy right now



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MontanaHatchet said:
Besides, NPD doesn't have sexy mods like Vgchartz does

Where????



 

Dallinor said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Besides, NPD doesn't have sexy mods like Vgchartz does

Where????

Over there.

 



 

 

shams said:
Quite interesting.

For starters - there can be no more "public" comparisons between NPD and VGChartz figures. In fact, I suspect anyone posting the "paid" NPD figures will be sued out of existence.

It also means NPD can issue general statement like "VGChartz is a joke - the figures differ from our official figures by more than 30% - but we aren't telling you what the real figures are - unless you want to pay lots of money".

But its great for VG - if this keeps up for a few months, sites will have no option other than to quote VGChartz figures instead of NPD. VGChartz will become the defacto "Internet" standard.

(it also does mean that our figures may become less accurate - especially with software, and especially in the US).

 All of that sucks to me...

 

I like seeing the NPD numbers and comparing with VGChartz - and every if VGChartz becomes the place for internet sites to quote on sales figures, it's not official and therefore there is now way of telling the accuracy of it or not.

peh.



@Origin,

There was no way to check the accuracy of the NPD numbers either....I don't see the difference other than what people built NPD up to be in their minds. NPD was no more official than VGC, it was just accepted by more people as accurate.



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