THE SIXTHAXIS : November, Sony sold about 500,000 more than Microsoft.

[Kantor]

TRios_Zen said:

Kantor said:

TRios_Zen said:
Because there is an absolute dearth of Sony fan and media support on the web?

Come on. Sony is doing great since the Slim release, are people really so touchy that if it isn't screamed from the mountains at every possible moment, then something must be wrong?

For the record, I've read no articles anywhere that have suggested that the US = the world or that the 360 is beating the PS3 in worldwide sales anywhere. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places?

There are plenty of articles with the title "360 outsells PS3 in November". Which is clearly not the case.

Software is even worse. Pachter complained about "Uncharted 2 only selling 650k in the US", while ignoring the 1.5 million sales it's gotten in the rest of the world. But then the rest of the world is just full of commies and dragons.

So Pacther wants better sales in America for a fantastic game, and that is bad?  Or NPD makes statements about NPD sales (only covering America) and somehow that means we think America = the world?

If we're joking about world maps, I prefer this one: http://pw0nd.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/america-500x344.jpg

If you're serious...well I won't go there.

NPD tracks US sales, and very few people seem to realise that there are game sales outside of the USA. If a game sells 500k in America, and 4 million in Europe and 2 million in Japan, is that game a failure for only selling 500k in America?

Even worse is what GameSpot did once, and just said "Uncharted [DF] sold 500,000 units, very disappointing, blah blah blah PS3 sucks", and I have no idea where they got that from, because it sold more than that in the US alone. They were probably using old NPD numbers, and made no mention of the fact that they were US only.