ICStats on 04 January 2007
Monty said:
Some of you are citing the 8 days worth of sales in Canada (Nov 22nd 2005 - Nov 30th 2005) as proof that Canada sells 10% of the US. However, I really believe that an 8 day period of sales during a very shortage filled launch is hardly conclusive proof of this.
However,as I said, if it is 10%, then that is 500k. How many do you people believe that Mexico sold in the last 14 months? Most here say they believe it would be less than Canada, but in the same ballpark. Lets say 300k just for fun, as I highly doubt it could be any lower than that. Granted they dont sell a lot, but over a 14 month time period thats just 21,000 a month.
So going with most of YOUR figures, Canada/Mexico sold around 800k. Lets plug that in to what we know:
- 2.9 million sold in the US from launch until Oct 06 (source: NPD).
- 2 million sold in between Nov 1st and Dec 25th, 06 (source NPD)
- 2.87 million all other places in the world, outside NA (source: vgcharts)
- 800k for the rest of NA
- 200k for the last week of Dec 2006 in the US
That is 8.7 million.
If you believe the NA total to only be 400k, then youre still above vgcharts at 8.3 million.
Keep in mind were not even adding in 2007 yet, and vgcharts was at 7.9 at the end of the year.
I think Ive more than proven my point. Unless you believe NA sold ZERO consoles in the last 14 months, there is no way you can believe vgcharts as being accurate. And if you believe that Canada and Mexico sold no consoles in 14 months, there may be no reasoning with you...
Funny you think you proved your point after dropping your estimate from 10 million to 8.7 million.
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