The Official July NPD Thread (data for 4 weeks ending 8/2 comes @ 6:30 est)

[marciosmg]

TWRoO said:

Gobias said:

marciosmg said:

Gobias said:

TWRoO said:
You don't use the VGC number to divide by to work out %age differences.

if the dirrerence between VGC and NPD (for PS3) is ~45k... then it's 45/225 = 0.2

20% difference.

180k was already scaled to US, so it is around 25%.

 

I think he meant that I should have divided 45 by NPD number, not VGC. And right.

 

VGC is 20% lower than NPD number. BUT, NPD number is 25% higher than VGC´s, which is what I was going for, so I am right as well.

 

The wonders of Mathematics :D

Ah okay, that makes more sense. (I'm terrible at math)

 

 

You are correct Marcio.... it can go both ways... it's just you stated "VGC is 25% off".

This means you are assuming NPD is the more likely correct figure.... so you should use that to divide by.

Ok. English isn´t my first language, so maybe I didn´t word it properly bit. I meant off as in different. I don´t know who is the more likely correct one. I wanted to say NPD number is 25% higher compared to VGC.