[业评] 占卜网的真相

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被不明真相的群众们奉为圣经的 vgcharts 的真相。

简单翻译：只能靠蒙，等gaf npd贴和pr出来再改，然后拿跟“接近”都差很远的东西卖钱。


1) Before NPD releases, they come to what they call "weekly sales figures" through:

a) Looking at how many people visit platform-related pages on their website

b) Looking at leaderboards, achievements and trophies

c) Polling users

d) Looking at historical NPD data and guessing based on the trends of the market

e) Going to a few stores and getting the video game sales for those couple of stores

Although they refer to it as "weekly sales figures at retail," they're actually deceiving you. It's really just a guess, just like your average GAFfer. These figures are usually wildly different from real NPD sales.


2) They modify their data when:

a) NPD releases

b) Official PR releases

When NPD releases, some of numbers magically change to figures more in line with real NPD sales...many times by a significant amount. The fact that they steal NPD's hard work is quite frankly despicable.


3) For full access to their nonsense, they charge:

a) $4,000 a year for Top 500

b) $12,000-$20,000 a year for their weekly database

That's right...for full access to their stolen (massaged) NPD figures and their made-up estimates that they call "sales figures," you only need to pay thousands and thousands of dollars.