| jman8 said: I'm shocked how much people care about 100,000 units. Does it really make your day by "proving" wrong this site, which spends countless hours putting together data when you probably spent 20 minutes? Anyway 100,000 units is nothing. Frankly, the 6.5 million difference between 360s and PS3s sold is a miniscule difference. 5 years from now, even if that lead grows to 10 million, it doesn't matter. Why? B/c if MS is at 60 million and Sony's at 50 million, they're basically tied. No developer is going to want to neglect such huge chunks of the market. Think about if MS had been that close to Sony in the last generation. MS would've gotten a lot more software support making both systems pretty much equal. But that isn't really the point of this post. Point is, chill out over a meazly 100,000 units that may or may not have been sold in "Other" countries. It means nothing now and means nothing in the future. |
I'm now confident in the number, but 100,000 happens to be 11.3%. Significant to me. But I'm amazed how you managed to interpret my intent, my motives and my level of appreciation for the work behind this site based on that post. Before ioi was banned on GAF, I often supported the use of estimated numbers, especially those of VGChartz, and on other forums, when discussions of sales estimations occur, I'd make my estimations and then state that ioi knows loads more than me and has lots and lots of different data to interpret and analyse in order to calculate what I believe to be the sales estimations with the most integrity in the public domain, bar none.
My intent was to help out with what I thought could have been something made more accurate. After I was put straight with what I overlooked, I no longer challenge it. I trust VGChartz as is fit in line with my own guestimations to a decent degree, I then disregarded mine and trust VGChartz over mine as I have less data to play with and the time I've spent estimating sales is nothing compared to the work on here.
