you guys are horrible.

I've posted a few times on how this website started. Here is the short version.

ioi (brett) owns the website, and he is the original creator. He wanted a better way to track numbers and started tracking numbers for NeoGaf. There was a fallout because they didn't consider his numbers "official" (or in other words, he wasn't a big company guessing numbers, he was just a single guy guessing numbers )

Anyways, after that, ioi started VGCharts.org, which then existed for a while, and then ioi decided he wanted a .com name, but someone had already bought vgcharts.com, so he switched it to vgchartz.com. since then the website has grown. VGChartz does actually receive sales numbers from a small percentage of the worlds retail market and estimates sales just like NPD/Mediacreate/Famitsu/GFK. VGChartz is very accurate with the hardware numbers, a little less so with the software. Either way, VGChartz is free for all of its data compared to the other companies which only release top 10/50 with or without numbers.

As for the 10k viewers, I can't remember when that was. I'm fairly sure it was before this years E3 when one of our articles hit the front page of Digg.

Soriku said: Seraphic_Sixaxis said: ^- lol come on now, be nice to the newcommer. Well i will tell you this Ken, i will be the New ArtofAngels of VGChartz. Hence Seraphic. You will never be as pimp as AoA! :P That dude was cool...sucks he left though.

I WILL surpass him just you wait... one of these days... i'll surpass his legendary coolness!

I'm pretty sure this is the article that caused it.
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=4818

@OP:
Once upon a time, in a rainy and foggy land far, far away, there was a princess, a mushroom and a ioi.
The ioi ate the mushroom, smoked the princess and then he saw the LIGHT!

i bet this ioi guy knows something, we just have to make him talk!

http://web.archive.org

go there and type Vgchartz.org or Vgchartz.com , you will see old vgchartz and lol 360 was selling more than Wii overall

edit : also the oldest one is Vgcharts.org check that out first

nordlead said: you guys are horrible. I've posted a few times on how this website started. Here is the short version. ioi (brett) owns the website, and he is the original creator. He wanted a better way to track numbers and started tracking numbers for NeoGaf. There was a fallout because they didn't consider his numbers "official" (or in other words, he wasn't a big company guessing numbers, he was just a single guy guessing numbers ) Anyways, after that, ioi started VGCharts.org, which then existed for a while, and then ioi decided he wanted a .com name, but someone had already bought vgcharts.com, so he switched it to vgchartz.com. since then the website has grown. VGChartz does actually receive sales numbers from a small percentage of the worlds retail market and estimates sales just like NPD/Mediacreate/Famitsu/GFK. VGChartz is very accurate with the hardware numbers, a little less so with the software. Either way, VGChartz is free for all of its data compared to the other companies which only release top 10/50 with or without numbers. As for the 10k viewers, I can't remember when that was. I'm fairly sure it was before this years E3 when one of our articles hit the front page of Digg.

Would that be the article stating WiiSports becoming the highest selling game of all time?

Actually, went near 10.9K views twice in the last year. Once in late April, and soon after in early May. There were several stories that made first page Digg within a few days, and no one story did it by itself.

It did go over 10k other times but not enough for a new high score.

Thanks so much!

I think the 10 k came from the day that we ended up on the front page of google or yahopo news (forgot which one) because of the "wii sports best selling ever" news story.