The Truth About Nextgenwars.com

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#1 winner1001
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Heres a video (Not made by me) that shows how Nextgenwars.com has false numbers
and is run by an 18 year old.
 
 
 http://www.n4g.com/News-33971.aspx

 Im never trusting those charts anymore,anyone know a more accurate site?

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#2 Acemaster27
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I knew the Wii had sold 6,800,000 instead of 5,800,000. Its Wii numbers r way too far down
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#3 Lazy_Boy88
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Yeah that site is a total load of crap. VGChartz.com seems to have the most accurate sales numbers.
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#4 inerte
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Wait, let me get my grandpapa to answer this, he's 86, so whatever he says is true.
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#5 ChimTheGrim21
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its nexgenwars.com , not next.
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#6 AgentVX
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I think (nexgenwars) it was a site that gave fairly reasonable predictions, and overall, somewhat accurate, though not based on many facts.

VGchartz another site that gives somewhat reasonable predictions, though not very accurate or up to date.

Console wars, now at http://en.konsolewars.com/ seems to have the most accurate tally, but again, it's accuracy is in question, though most likely the closest of the 3.

All in all, I think all of them are usually off on at least one of the consoles.

 

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#7 rexoverbey
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Vgcharts also uses estimates. Add up all the NPD data and you will find that out (that is their main source). As for the counter big deal everyone already knew that it was just an estimate on how many sales the console was doing on average. The video is dumb too btw not that I back nexgenwars,vgcharts., or npd because the all lack real information. They are all best guistemates at best and none are official.
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#8 Saturos3091
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Nexgenwars and VGcharts are both innaccurate.  VGcharts seems to update some numbers early and some later (plus they're estimates), and Nexgenwars seems to just be estimates.

I don't really know any better sites though.

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#9 Vandalvideo
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Age is a relative measurement of maturity and in no way indicates a person's mental or intellectual capabilities. The fact hes 18 does not discredit his work by any means what so ever.
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#10 NooBAFIED
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i knew it was B>S
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I think (nexgenwars) it was a site that gave fairly reasonable predictions, and overall, somewhat accurate, though not based on many facts.

VGchartz another site that gives somewhat reasonable predictions, though not very accurate or up to date.

Console wars, now at http://en.konsolewars.com/ seems to have the most accurate tally, but again, it's accuracy is in question, though most likely the closest of the 3.

All in all, I think all of them are usually off on at least one of the consoles.

 

AgentVX
you are way off its all about vgcharts they are the best of the best. this link explains why and they methods they use are the best to get a close approximation, nexgenwars uses a counter that is very innacurate. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/media/?id=15140
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#12 gromit007
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Two other threads about this have already been locked today. The mods must be on break. VGChatz also uses an algorithm to increase the sales data between official number releases.
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#13 InfamousC
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Heres a video (Not made by me) that shows how Nextgenwars.com has false numbers
and is run by an 18 year old.
 
 
 http://www.n4g.com/News-33971.aspx

 Im never trusting those charts anymore,anyone know a more accurate site?

winner1001

this is the best source for worldwide console sales data.

http://www.vgchartz.com/