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numonex on 03 September 2009
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MikeB said:

Yes, the PS3 sold out completely in my area before the PS3 slim launched.

IMO sadly VGChartz has a habbit of overtracking the XBox 360 and undertracking the PS3 on a global scale (this since the beginning). Overtracking and undertracking fluctuate with regard to Japan/US, but for the rest of the world the 360 is usually well overtracked and the PS3 significantly undertracked.

If you add up the numbers VGChartz often claims there are way more PS3s on the shelves at retail than there are 360s on the shelves. This while PS3 (fat) boxes are way bigger and thus that would mean retail dedicating a whole lot more space to the PS3 than to the 360.

But in reality in my country you usually see there are well more 360s left in stock and they are selling slower with various different models. The lowest entry pricing units sell faster than the elite, the 360 is always in stock around here. But I have seen holiday units (119 Euro incl. 19% taxes and with free games) which still weren't sold many months later (they had a sticker covering up the holiday pricing).

Mike B you have the most ridiculous opinions and always pass it off as being fact. So Mike B says all PS3s have been sold out everywhere in his small town then this means PS3 has been sold out everywhere worldwide and the PS3 numbers must be undertracked. 360 must be overtracked worldwide. Because Mike B says so.

Provide some real evidence to support these ridiculous claims. You have not justified anything yet. So your opinion is correct? The dedicated expert sales analysts who run this site must be wrong?  The available tracking sites including GfK, NPD, Media Create, Famitsu are pretty close to VGChartz sales numbers. All the world's tracking sites must be wrong? Litle Mike B from Holland must be right?

Real evidence points to the contrary that PS3 and 360 sales numbers on VGChartz are close to the real sales number. Even ioi himself has shot you down Mike B.

But it is ok Mike B is drunk again and all can be forgiven.