DMeisterJ said:
Gnizmo said:
DMeisterJ said:
Too many factors to call this comment either way.
He could be talking about connected to online, since he says 'playing'. That means that if you don't have an internet connection, and bought the game, you're not counted. They also could not be counting bundles. (On a side-note, FishyJoe, it doesn't matter how they'd want to say it, we have to go on what was said, not speculation).
Things against that could be used copies of the game. If someone is playing a used copy online, then they 'played' it, or if someone borrowed a copy they 'played' it too. But if people who borrowed or bought used didn't have online, then they didn't 'play' it.
I think that until someone actually says the words 'sold' or 'shipped', there is no real discussion to be had here, simply speculation on what was meant. So for the time being, we should take VGCs 1.7 million or whatever as it is. |
Not really that many factors at all. Why would they release anything but the largest number for a game? Occam's razor should come into effect here. The simplest answer is they have shipped 1.3 million copies, and VGchartz over-tracked it by a lot. This is neither the first, nor last time this will happen. I think RE4 Wii is still somewhere around 300k over shipped figures given by capcom.
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Yeah, but he didn't say 'shipped' so...
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You well know vgchatz tracks sold to consumers. So even if he meant sold to consumers it puts vgchartz 500k above Sony's own figures. If he meant shipped it puts vgchartz at well over 500k overtracking.
Also of course it matters how they say it. Like when Sony said 14million PSN users back in november and is was implied that was for PS3 only. However it was later clarified it was for PS3 and PSP. A company always wants to make itself sound as good as possible. It will use the best statistics it can.
Also to people who have claimed it could be outdated numbers. Yes because Sony themselves would struggle to find their own shipped numbers. They will be the most up to date statistics they have. Using figures from weeks ago could only hurt them, people would assume the figures are recent and thus lower than expected.
The only question is if he means 1.3million played online, or 1.3million shipped/sold. One of them means Vgchartz could be pretty accurate. The other means Vgchartz are miles off.
