Microsoft say they've sold about 8m in PAL territories

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bigjon said:

mrstickball said:

bigjon said:

SleepWaking said:

Demotruk said:
Vgchartz seems to be way way off. If there is no clear reason for this then Credibility -= 1000;

 

read this thread http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=55617 please and stop the stupidity

thank you for linking me to spin city.

so, how is 8.3 sellthough on 8 million shipped not overtracked at all again.

Because your assuming a lot of things here:

• Assuming it's shipped, and not sold (press release cited MS estimates via GfK - which means they are estimating sellthrough, and not shipping data - Why cite GfK if your needing shipment data, which you control?)
  
• Assuming 8 million means exactly 8,000,000 sold

Your the one spinning the data. The data was being cited as from GfK through Microsoft, and not Microsoft's PR wing alone.

 

well if it is sellthough that does make it better. Still over tracked, but just marginally (400-500k, not the 700k or so it would be if it were shipped)

Looking at the VGC numbers, it's reporting 8.39 million units for Europe (UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Scandinavia, Other Europe) which would mean it's 'off' by 400,000 units.

However, I wonder (and ioi or another higher up would have to answer this) if the EMEA region = Europe + Other Europe. We may not be comparing apples to apples here, which could cause discrepancies.