Last information on PS3 sales in Spain

[Diomedes1976]

Though as it is for some of the "Sony tracked shipped numbers and now tracks sold to retailers " mantra faithfuls the fact is that Sony ,as probably Nintendo and MS as well ,does have full access to the data of Media Create ,NPD ,GFK ,Chartracks ,Adese or whatever .If it was your business of thousand millions wouldnt you spend like some 1000 dollars a year to have this vital information by being direct client of those services ?

This has been shown several times in many interviews .Interviews with this guy Armstrong of last year showed that he knew exactly what was being sold and not only their own products but Nintendo and Microsoft as well .I remember a concrete interview when he said they were selling like 10 K PS2 in Spain weekly while the 360 numbers were consistently 900-1000 consoles each week .He also compared weekly numbers for the PSP and the DS concluding that in some good weeks the PSP was on par with the DS and that while the DS sold better overall they had a grip on some 40% of the market (this was just at the beggining of the BT craze ) .Sony Spain has showed in many ocassions to have a full knowlodgement at the sales information updated weekly .

I know the "Sony only tracks shipped or sold to customers numbers " mantra is recomforting ,specially for some people that dont like Sony too much .But it isnt true .Sony ,as well as their internal numbers ,as full access to the data of the agencies .

And ,in the case of Europe ,when they talk about sales numbers they tell the "sold to customers " numbers .That was the case with Georges Fornay last week in France (that he backed mentioning GFK ) as he explicitly said and this is the case with Armstrong in Spain .

If ioi accepted the Fornay word on this in the French case he should do the same with this .More so ,it isnt a surprise announcement .The same guy gave mid-july the sales data for Spain and Portugal at the time and it was 194 000 for Spain and some 26 000 for Portugal for a total of 220 000 .It had already surpassed the 360 then .For the record ,Nintendo told as well when the Wii had surpassed the 360 in Spain and it was around february .THe only one here that doesnt open the mouth is MS and because they better dont .

As for the "if it is undertracked in Spain it is overtracked elsewhere " it is laughable .When the french data came ioi adjusted it without reducing the numbers elsewhere .Collecting european data is tricky and the site does its best ,but that doesnt mean it is infallible .It is fallible ,good thing is that when new data arrives they change the numbers .IF they now change the spanish numbers and dont change anything else what are you going to say ?Will you reclaim it to keep faithful to some predictions that have been proved incorrect by reality ?

THe PS3 is above 250 000 in Spain right now ,this is a fact that cant be spinned as some are trying to do .Just accept it .