And one final thing to add:
The biggest question mark on "others" data, in terms of VGC's coverage is the absolute lack of probable data coming from South East Asia, minus Austrailia/NZ. To my knowledge, VGC has absolutely no data from those countries' software sales, and very minimal hardware.
Despite this, Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong are rather "big" countries for the Xbox 360. Is it any wonder that *gasp* VGC has no data for those 3 countries, and actually buy Japanese RPGs?
Lets take a look at MGC sales for LO and BD in those countries:
Blue Dragon: 11,470 Gamercards in Taiwan, SK, and HK (18.8% of Others)
Lost Odyssey: 7,742 Gamercards in Taiwan, SK, and HK (11.9% of Others)
Grand Theft Auto IV: 9,810 Gamercards in Taiwan, SK, and HK (3.0% of Others).
Is that not compelling? What I am trying to convey is:
1) VGC does not track SE Asia data very reliabily
2) MGC does.
3) Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon (especially Blue Dragon) have significantly higher marketshares in South East Asia than typical Xbox 360 games.
Add it all together, and it makes perfect sense when you want to argue the validity of my methods. When we talk "others" we're not always just talking about Europe. We're talking about obscure South East Asia nations that MGC does have valid information for, and VGC has nothing of the sorts. XBL user bases have correlated perfectly in terms of Microsoft quotes, and hard shipping data to most regions - MGC states that 60% of Xbox 360 Live users are in North America. Why can't you believe that if the hardware data of live users correlates perfectly, the software does as well?
Just because 90% of games sell at a certain rate in others (usually 50% of NA sales), and is indeed accurate, doesn't mean that you can throw out the 10% that break the mold, and do very well in Europe, and Others. It's not like the data is randomly like this with Western-centric games like Overlord, Grand Theft Auto, or Halo....Its nearly exclusive for J-centric games that can easily cater to Asian audiences.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
