GfK Chart-Track: UK 2008 Annual Sales

[Oyvoyvoyv]

koffieboon said:

Oyvoyvoyv said:

Indeed the Ps3's AR is large. The below method is, however, a bit... shoggy (I know! It's not even a word! Bloody...!)

Software in 08 vs current userbase (underlined is why it's shoggy)

Wii - 5.17M HW - 20.1M SW = 3.88 games pr console (in 08, and also a bit higher in reality)

Ps3 - 1.87M HW - 10.4M SW = 5.56 games pr console

X360 - 3.25M HW - 14.9M SW = 4.58 games pr console.

 

So that's a fair amount above the other consoles.

I'm glad you call those ratios shoggy yourself, because it really doesn't make sense to devide the total sales in 2008 by the life to date sales at the end of 2008. Also I'm not that happy about using vgchartz hardware sales with charttrack software sales, but I guess you can't really do it any other way without access to charttrack data.

 

 Yeah, it doesn't mean a lot, but it still gives a perspective (albeit, a bit anti-Wii)

 

And why is using VGChartz HW with Charttrack SW bad? The only reason I see for this, is the VGC HW being incorrect. For LT, I really doubt it is off by 10% (for the UK), so it's pretty decent really.

Wait, no - it's not.

If it's off by 5% on X360

3.1M HW = 4.8 games pr console

And 10% for Ps3

2M HW = 5.2 games pr console

 

And then it's in the "dead on" zone, as the way of getting them is a bit shoggy.

 

So including Wii Sports (Chart-Track doesn't) all consoles are really so dead on that my method is meaningless.

 

So, simply ignore my first post in this thread. (Thanks for telling me Koffie)