@Laoldar, the alternatice is your own analysis and those of the people on this site. Like others had mentioned here, the personal estimate of anyone here is likely as accurate if not more accurate than VGC. At least here, people post some analysis as to why they think a game has sold X units. On VGC, its just a guy with no credentials who makes a bunch of guesses on tons of games and posts them on a website. How is that something to go on more than what people post on this message board?
The only reason it caught on originally was it leaked NPD data. Now they got stomped on by NPD and have tried to keep traffic by making up their own numbers. Have people not noticed how off these numbers are? They only make our forecasts off. For September, I looked at their numbers, saw they were all huge, and traded the opposite way because I knew they were unrealistic. Turned out the actual numbers were even smaller than I thought they would be.
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The only reason it caught on originally was it leaked NPD data. Now they got stomped on by NPD and have tried to keep traffic by making up their own numbers. Have people not noticed how off these numbers are? They only make our forecasts off. For September, I looked at their numbers, saw they were all huge, and traded the opposite way because I knew they were unrealistic. Turned out the actual numbers were even smaller than I thought they would be.