It did 170,000 in July and Gamestop said sales doubled after the price drop.
We dont know if that held across chains or for a longer time period though.
But 360's amazon ranking has been up a lot too.
Anyway, double july would be 340,000. So it doesn't even have to do 200% to get over 300,000.
Plus nobody is considering that this is the first month Elite is not supply constrained. I think even if there was no price drop, it would have got a bump from that, but now it'll be a double bump. Not too mention Madden and Bioshock, and increased activity in preperation for Halo 3.
And Gameboy, vgchartz is not comparable as a source to NPD so dont even play that game.Vgchartz has said at times they cover 5-10% of the market, and we dont even know if that's true. NPD cover 60% or more directly, and they just added a bunch more sources so it's probably higher now. 60% was just the low end of what they used to cover. I've heard 60-75% as a range BEFORE they added their new sources last month.
Also I loves me some vgchartz, but NPD are professionals who get paid big money for sales figures and vgchartz is just some kids playing, really. When it comes to extrapolating unknown sales, NPD is probably far more accurate at it. Besides of course having much less to estimate to begin with.
Vgchartz is vastly underestimating 360 sales this month and I plan to prove that when I spank them with my upcoming NPD prediction thread. Unless ioi retroactively changes those numbers on the quick like he knows he better do after seeing this :)
