| ioi said: -These do not include Canada sales -Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron is a pack in -DS hardware is intentionally 10% or so higher -Guitar Hero III on 360 presumably has a stand alone version as well, so not as different as it first looks. I believe NPD have been undertracking Xbox360 for the last few months so I'm pretty happy with the comparisons - we are intentionally tracking higher than NPD on 360. Note - I WILL NOT be making any major alterations to our figures in light of NPDs information. Most software is actually almost identical and it is 360 software we disagree most on. |
Can we see VG US only numbers (excluding Canada)? That may help with some of the misunderstandings.
If NPD has been undertracking 360 for the past 3 months then VG has been seriously undertracking it since in July August and September VG was 10% to 15% below NPD for 360 ...
360 numbers for:
July - VG 136K vs. NPD 183K - http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=510
August - VG 271K vs NPD 303K - http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=531
September - VG 521K vs. NPD 579K - http://www.vgchartz.com/news/index.php?start=70
So is the "overtracking" by VG in October an effort to make up for the Undertracking by VG in July - September? If so it sould seem to be a better methodology to adjust historical data rather than pad current #'s.
ioi - "I have always endorsed NPD and have always conceded that their figures are obviously far more accurate than ours ..." - Posted on: 06/14/07, 22:22
