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ioi said:
Diomedes1976 said:
Yeah but you have adjusted to 6.41 ...the Nintendo report (and I dont think they are putting numbers to look worse ) says 5.84 million consoles sold .Its still some 550K off .

There have been another 3.5 weeks of sales since the coverage of these financials. Diomedes, why do you seem intent on suggesting that their is a bias or foul play with VG Chartz? It works across the board - some think that 360 sales are a little high (I think they are a little in "others" so may readjust in the near future) some think too low (10.4m shipped remember). Some say Wii sales are too high, some too low. Some say PS3 sales are too high.

At the end of the day we apply the same methods across all formats in our calculations. We don't have sell through data for every single region so we have to estimate and project - obviously in the case of Wii we were ~300k too high in others so evidently it has been selling (shipping) better in the UK / France / Germany / Spain proportionately to other regions which we estimate for based on past trends.

 

Edit: lol from every indication there is Wii is still sold out in every single region so shipped = sold in this case.


You should come to my country ,there are Wiis in each and every store .In the Top Ten for april there isnt a single Wii game (4 PS3 games ) .It seems hype has already died .Its not the same in all countries of course ,but just to point shipped doesnt equal sold .

I have had the impression for some time ,and I told you before ,that PS3 numbers were always treated with the most conservative estimations or the lower numbers available.No problem with that  .But with the X360 you were a little more generous ,and a lot more generous with the Wii .And you have had to cut the numbers for those consoles several times and not in very small margins as with the PS3 ones ,so I think I was more or less correct about this impression .Not saying you are biased or anything ,but maybe your sources are .

 

One question .....have we lost the historical NA data forever ?I mean ,I liked to go and see how much Pokemon sold compared to the next iteration or how the NA sales for all the DMC games fared etc .This seems a terrible blow for this site .I hope you can put those numbers back , monthly data would be great ..if not weekly would be supportable .NPD has force you to eliminate the database for NA ?And I would like more than just the Top 50 if its possible ...if NPD hasnt forced you to stick to that numbers of course .