Diomedes1976 on 27 March 2007
ioi said:
Diomedes1976 said:
Now if they would add the extra 100K to the frontpage ....
This bothers me a bit ,with the PS3 vgcharts always consider the lowest number available as the safest bet but with the others they put the best predictions ,make numbers from nowhere ,and even when things doesnt bode well with their own data (X360 Japan data being 15K off right now ,X360 NA data being nearly 1 million off comparing with NPD,Wii Japan data being nearly 200K off ) or the provided by NPD or Media create they dont change ir or if they do they dont do it in the correct amount .
Diomedes, the figures we had estimated based on the data we had came out at ~520k.
Numbers are not "made up out of nowhere" they are estimated from the raw data we have - this will of course be subject to error from time to time. I think 520k compared to something approaching 600k (although who says that figure is spot on - also it comes with a range, could be anything from 550-650k really) isn't bad for our limited sources.
As for the other numbers, you have said a few times that blah is too high and blah is too low - based on what exactly? All numbers on the frontpage are consistent with our own Japanese / NA data as you would hope and all is calculated in the same manner.
Edit: according to this site, SCEE have reported 550k sold through: (more than PS2 in 3 months and PS in one year)
http://community.eu.playstation.com/showthread.php?p=1426233[/quote]
I would like to believe that ,but there are some things I dont see very clear .
For example for the PS3 february data you added exactly the numbers of NPD for US and Canada to make your NA number .Perfect .Problem comes that adding those two numbers with the Wii and the X360 still leaves some 20K consoles or more you have added as I did put "out of nowhere " .Now if you say your data for the PS3 is exactly the same as NPD but your estimations for the X360 and Wii are higher that would explain that perfectly ,but it is somewhat suspicious that your PS3 data is exactly the same yet the X360 and Wii data is dozens of thousands higher .Its maybe a minor gripe ,but makes one think about it ,specially when your data for the X360 in NA is starting to show major discrepancies with the NPD one adding Canada and US (I call nearly a million major discrepancies ) and the Wii data in Japan some 10% higher that the arguably very reliable Media Create one .
Right now the numbers seem fairly in line with the evidence. If that turns out to be too low or high, we'll find out soon.
