| albionus said: I don't mind the inaccuracy inherint in weekly numbers. Even if the sales are within 20% (or say +- 200k) it still gives you a fairly accurate read of how games and systems are doing. Zelda:TP sold between 1.4 and 2 million units (or 1.5 and 1.9 million), that still tells you that it's way more than Rayman's 400-600k (300-700k). Even though over time the error theoretically grows, so long as overall numbers are corrected when more reliable info is released it's not a major problem. Whatever the error it sure beats having to rely on Microsoft claims that the 360 "sold" 10.4 million by jan 1, 07. Even if monthly numbers are much more accurate it still doesn't beat having guesstimates every week. |
20% is much too large of a disparity, anything above 10% is probably too large to give any reliable picture of the industry
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
