VGChartz has undertracked PSP sales by 4.5 million!

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mehm said:

scottie said:
Who was it with the gif in their avatar explaining this situation? Sony used to count all manufactured units as shipped, and thus the 5.5 million is a combination of a small amount of VGChartz undertracking, stock on shelves, and replacement units under warranty

 

You said it in your own post. They used to do it, but not anymore. They shipped 50m PSPs to retailers.

Well the problem has been that people have combinced the two different methods to try find the total to retail... which is very innacurate, so scottie COULD have been right.

However, I am positive this is (finally) the actual shipped figure we ave wanted all this time, I have suspected the PSP was undertracked quite a while, in fact I was expecting ioi to notice and bump it up before Christmas (which is why in the broken prediction league for LTD HW as of Jan 3rd 2009 I put the PSP above the Wii, even though the trends of the figures at the time showed it would pass it handily)

That and the "wrong" way to do it, ie combining old product shipments, and new retail shipments actually gives a figure of 52-53 million.

So yes, the PSP is undertracked... probably by about 4-4.5 million.