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TWRoO on 25 February 2009
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toastboy44562 said:
TWRoO said:
I swear you have said the same thing before toastboy... or if not have at least been in one of the dozens of threads this has been explained.

The region: "Others" is missing a lot of data, and the older the system, and also the lower number of big sellers a system has, the higher the percentage of titles is missing data for the Others region.

The PSP is one of the oldest systems... which means some old games that may be still selling (albeit slowly, but together they will add up) will not be tracked... more importantly for weekly sales, and particularly for the PSP, is that ioi doesn't accuratly track much more than the top 100 weekly for the region, and because the PSP doesn't really sell software well, a big chunk of it's software is missing each week.

Give me a minute and I shal dig up a post I made estimating what the multipliers are for each system (I believe for total (not weekly) PSP software I have it being multiplied by 6-7 to get a rough estimate... while weekly figures are more like 3-4 times)

 

 

then why do we have all the data for the ds? That is an even older system and we got all the data for it ;P

 

We don't... first of all age is a relatively important factor when talking about what VGC shows as the total software... but is less of a factor for the weekly sales. Second of all, the more important factor is big selling games. The DS has a staple number of games that sell consistantly well week in week out so they are always included each week.... the PSP doesn't have many of these.

Here is something from a PM I sent to diomedes on the matter:

My rough estimate which has little basis really, but it helps to see the consoles better is to do this to total software.

PSP roughly multiplying what the current software total is by 6-7

360 and DS roughly double and add a bit to what the current software totals are. (about 7:1 ratio for X360 and 4.5:1 for DS) this puts the DS total in line with what Nintendo's shipment figures will be now

PS3 and Wii roughly multiply by 1.5 (PS3 ratio of 5.5:1, Wii ratio of 7:1 [6:1 without Wii Sports]) again this puts the Wii total in line with Nintendo shipments.

(Sony and MS don't break down shipments into region anymore so it's tough to compare to them)

In terms of weekly sales it's too tough to do multipliers because each week differs with games like Fifa coming out and such (so this week Wii would need more added than PS360, but other weeks like SSBB it wouldn't etc) PSP would again need the most added though, probably over doubling it's usual weekly sales (say 2.5 times)



The DS is also missing a lot of software in others... more in numbers than the PSP is missing, but the PSP is missing a much higher percentage.