360 Numbers don't add up!

[Monty]

Jack said: Monty said: The funny thing in all this, is after we've seen the NPD numbers and the shipped number for the 360, it makes nexgenwars look like they were a lot more accurate than this site, as their 360 numbers were considerably higher and the Wii number considerably lower. I'm not a fan of either site, but the appearance is definitely there to the casual viewer that it was more on target. That is funny how you have been pushing their 9+million number and never showed how the NA has sold more than 5 million. The Wii and the PS3 numbers are a little high but the 360 numbers are not at all to low. It is pure fantasy that you are living in if you are happy to live in a fantasy world be my guest. But that does not prove they are too low.

The Wii numbers are "a little high"?!?!? They sold 1 million in the US. Using your own formula that you guys have been pushing down my throat, that would mean they didn't even touch 3 million. That means vgcharts is more than 1 million off with only 3 million in sales. What kind of batting % is that? Why should I trust the 360 numbers when it is that far off the Wii numbers which were in a lot more limited supply leaving less room for error? Again, a lot of this goes back to common sense. At the end of the year, vgcharts had 7.9 listed as the 360 sales. MS released figures showing 10.4 million shipped. Use your logic and ask yourself if it was at all possible to have 1 out of every 4 Xbox 360s EVER made in the last 14 months on store shelves? Of course not! Since most of this is guesswork, it's best to use logic and reason at times.