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

[TRios_Zen]

Kantor said:

TRios_Zen said:

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.

I'm not arguing that there aren't stupid people in the world (many I'm sure in America).  But by grossly generalizing that all of America thinks it is the world, you have done what you claim to be vexed about in the first place.

Hey I'm down with PS3 doing great and Uncharted being a great game (it's sales will go up by +1 as soon as I can find the time to finish the first!); I just think this article was over-reactionary.