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Khuutra on 09 February 2009

Wait

Does this mean Zack and Wiki may need to be adjusted down again? I don't know if my heart could take it.



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Soma on 09 February 2009
kitler53 said:

GAME IGN/NPD VGCHARTZ(AMERICAS) %DIFFERENCE
RE4 759,000 990,000 30%
RE:UC 398,800 510,000 28%
Okami 165,900 200,000 20%
Z&W 116,600 160,000 37%

 

Now, NPD is for the USA and Vgchartz is for the Americas (USA + Canada) which as a rule of thumb is 110% larger than USA alone.  So do you really want to call this overtracked?  I mean really, that's pretty damn close and I applaud Brett for his work.  but hey, haters will always hate...

edited for visual clarity.

Americas is only USA and Canada? I thought they included Mexico and the rest of Latin America ?

 



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Procrastinato on 09 February 2009

Kids don't care about tracking. Your inner child self doesn't care about Wii game sales, only about saving the princess and the phosphorous people on the TV.

Thus, this statistic is meaningless and wrong, since it has nothing to do with saving digital princesses and their kingdoms... or robbing them blind in the case of Wario.



 

Khuutra on 09 February 2009
Procrastinato said:
Kids don't care about tracking. Your inner child self doesn't care about Wii game sales, only about saving the princess and the phosphorous people on the TV.

Thus, this statistic is meaningless and wrong, since it has nothing to do with saving digital princesses and their kingdoms... or robbing them blind in the case of Wario.

I love the sentiment, I do, but take note of what website you're on.



HALOOOOOOOO on 10 February 2009
Soma said:
kitler53 said:

GAME IGN/NPD VGCHARTZ(AMERICAS) %DIFFERENCE
RE4 759,000 990,000 30%
RE:UC 398,800 510,000 28%
Okami 165,900 200,000 20%
Z&W 116,600 160,000 37%

 

Now, NPD is for the USA and Vgchartz is for the Americas (USA + Canada) which as a rule of thumb is 110% larger than USA alone.  So do you really want to call this overtracked?  I mean really, that's pretty damn close and I applaud Brett for his work.  but hey, haters will always hate...

edited for visual clarity.

Americas is only USA and Canada? I thought they included Mexico and the rest of Latin America ?

 

Explaining Data on VG Chartz

  1. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft define regions differently. Microsoft includes more than Japan in ‘Japan’ on financial reports for instance.
  2. “American Weekly Data” is VG Chartz estimations for sales of the United States and Canada, plus slightly more for developing markets in Central & South America. Canadian data tends to account for 5-10% of USA hardware and software sales in any given week.
  3. The million selling software section is shipment information from publishers – it is not sell through.
  4. The LTD (lifetime to date) hardware section is shipment data from publishers about what has been shipped since the product launched. LTD hardware is directly from 6 month financial reports.


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Zlejedi on 10 February 2009
kitler53 said:

GAME IGN/NPD VGCHARTZ(AMERICAS) %DIFFERENCE
RE4 759,000 990,000 30%
RE:UC 398,800 510,000 28%
Okami 165,900 200,000 20%
Z&W 116,600 160,000 37%

 

Now, NPD is for the USA and Vgchartz is for the Americas (USA + Canada) which as a rule of thumb is 110% larger than USA alone.  So do you really want to call this overtracked?  I mean really, that's pretty damn close and I applaud Brett for his work.  but hey, haters will always hate...

edited for visual clarity.

So 18-27% error margin is considered close ?

 



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soccerdrew17 on 10 February 2009
Zlejedi said:
kitler53 said:

GAME IGN/NPD VGCHARTZ(AMERICAS) %DIFFERENCE
RE4 759,000 990,000 30%
RE:UC 398,800 510,000 28%
Okami 165,900 200,000 20%
Z&W 116,600 160,000 37%

 

Now, NPD is for the USA and Vgchartz is for the Americas (USA + Canada) which as a rule of thumb is 110% larger than USA alone.  So do you really want to call this overtracked?  I mean really, that's pretty damn close and I applaud Brett for his work.  but hey, haters will always hate...

edited for visual clarity.

So 18-27% error margin is considered close ?

 

not saying whos wrong (ndp or vgchartz since i have no data myself), but thats a decent margin of error.

 



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MANUELF on 10 February 2009

Ouch for Zack & Wiki



Ail on 10 February 2009
soccerdrew17 said:
Zlejedi said:
kitler53 said:

GAME IGN/NPD VGCHARTZ(AMERICAS) %DIFFERENCE
RE4 759,000 990,000 30%
RE:UC 398,800 510,000 28%
Okami 165,900 200,000 20%
Z&W 116,600 160,000 37%

 

Now, NPD is for the USA and Vgchartz is for the Americas (USA + Canada) which as a rule of thumb is 110% larger than USA alone.  So do you really want to call this overtracked?  I mean really, that's pretty damn close and I applaud Brett for his work.  but hey, haters will always hate...

edited for visual clarity.

So 18-27% error margin is considered close ?

 

not saying whos wrong (ndp or vgchartz since i have no data myself), but thats a decent margin of error.

 

 

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johnsobas on 10 February 2009

the thing i don't get about zack and wiki is it shipped 300k before the european launch. It would seem that the copies for the european launch had already shipped to stores, but it's pretty hard to believe that no more were shipped to europe or NA, then you have NPD saying only 115k.



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