Maybe because COD is treated like an exclusive on the xbox360? Americans love their overrated shooters, sad, but true. Party chat is also overrated, and yes I have xbox360. But continue on talking about who sells more, because quality wise nobody gives a sh*t about who sells more when they have games to play.

I actually agree with you, I was just being a smart ass towards the idiots that feel the need to give us a geography lesson every time U.S. numbers are posted.

Actually the European vgchart sales cancel out 360 sales and put ps3 over a little. So no US is not the world, all regions are important.

http://n4g.com/news/1064485...

@DarkHeroZX... whatever helps you sleep at night

@Theoretical

1st I think the name is a joke because don't know what you speak of.

I actually know the EIC of VGChartz and I did an interview with him on how they get their respective numbers. So I know what I'm talking about here and you don't.

As for the NPD comment...it's well documented that NPD does polling just like VGChartz but for different retailers. Also NPD "DOES NOT" include data from large retailers and it's a fairly extensive list of retailers that they exclude data from...and I mean big and small stores.

So you can make your comment but I'm actually am EIC of a site and BA for a billion dollar company who deals with this info on a day to day basis so again I actually know what I'm talking about here and you don't.

Before I leave your mind spinning you missed the point of my comment. The numbers had a variation which I was pointing out...I was neither defending or opposing their numbers simply pointing out a potential issue.

Thanks again :)

@HiddenMission:

I work for a multinational video game company. I have our actual sales numbers. NPD numbers are generally within 10-15%. I know which retailers that carry our games aren't accounted for in the NPD numbers, because I can do the math.

VGChartz, on the other hand, has been off by upwards of 300% on our titles. I posit to you that it is perhaps you who has no idea about which you speak, or rather, that you have a very flawed perception based on partial truths.

I don't like to tell other people how to do their jobs, but if I were in your position, I'd probably reconsider using them as a source, especially if you're in charge of millions of dollars. It'd be a horrible thing to end up losing your job in this economy.

And I get your original point, which is that the data has discrepancies. It was your tossed off attempt to cast the two sites as being birds of a feather that I felt the need to comment on. The fact that the data is routinely retroactively changed without comment on VGChartz is well-documented by others who interviewed them about their "data collection", and this is what likely caused the discrepancy from image to frontpage.