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pantheon on 19 January 2007
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My head hurts by your replies TalonMan, but let's start with the reply that was more "mainstream":

Diomedes1976 said: Lets see pantheon ...why do yu assume Nintendo has shipped 4 million units ? ...
This was kind of beside the point, as my posts were on how the 360 was way undercalculated, and I just added one sentense about the wii, commenting on the 4-million figure Nintendo gave (Where I got it? On every news article about the Wii recently). So, based on that I do think that the vgcharts number is low, but not alarmingly low. Let's concentrate on the 360 which is the cry out loud case, if the Wii number is off by 200-300k (which is about my "hunch"), it would be too difficult to prove for any side of the argument. Then we go on to the silliness.
TalonMan said: Wii_gamer said: Where did NPD adjust X360 numbers up to 5 million? I dunno - but that's what vgcharts has listed for the USMonthly chart and I know that's not what it was about a week ago...
You do realize wii_gamer is the one responsible for the "USMonthly" chart you are quoting, right? Since he is asking where you got the numbers, it should be quite obvious to you that they are NOT NPD numbers! Maybe becaue it says "North American Chart" on top? Otherwise it would be adjusted US numbers partially based on NPD, but they certainly are NOT NPD (they don't even claim them to be!). More:
TalonMan said: I'd like to see where you're getting your NPD numbers from - I was using the ones right here on this very site: http://www.vgcharts.org/usamonthly.php
Do you even read this forum? The "December NPD" thread is really hard to miss. Also ANY news site or ANY gaming site would be a clue. Google news is your friend too. (Here is a result: BusinessWeek).
TalonMan said: So, once again: Wii - December - 1,272,500 + 15% = 1,463,375 PS3 - December - 780,500 + 15% = 897,575 And, as I said, the 360 number for December used to be 4.5 million, but it's recently been changed to 5 million and I don't think the front page has been updated to reflect this. 360 - December - 4,500,000 + 15% = 5,175,000 Where's the conspiracy????
By now you must have realized that you are comparing vgchart's own numbers on the monthly page, with vgchart's own numbers on the front page. If there was no consistency it would look bad. Hmm, and guess what, it seems that you have found them inconsistent - the 360 number that is, which is the one I was complaining about in the first place. Wii_gamer might be able to tell us what these numbers are. NA estimates? US estimates? They might even be NA estimates calculated before NPD released their DEC numbers.