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

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scrubfresh said:

I doubt PS3 sold 500k more than 360 in December let alone November.

We know 360 was +100k in America, and we know PS3 was probably ~+150k in Japan, so America+Japan=PS3+50k. The major remaining market is EU, personally I doubt PS3 won by more than 300k there, but my guess is 200k. So worldwide it's maybe 250k more for PS3.

 

All this will come out when Sony and MS release their worldwide quartery shipment numbers for this quarter in Jan-Feb. I bet PS3 will win by 1m tops, which is only 333k per month, so yeah, +500k in Nov, no. Vgchartz is just doing their usual pro-PS3 number fabrication in the meantime (according to them PS3 won Nov in the states too lol)

If you want to do a nice easy global sales comparison here are the VGC numbers:

Console	PS3
Total	1,734,034

minus

Console	X360
Total	1,381,088

equals 353K

So it would seem the sixthaxis has used erroneous figures, or bad mathematics. There has been an adjustment in the Americas on VGC reducing the November gap from 35K to 5K in favour of the PS3.

VGC is only 20K above your monthly average guess, so VGC must be disgustingly biased in favour of the PS3.  Yes they were really showing their abominable PS3 bias this time last year. And how dare they under-represent the Wii numbers. Wii is obviously selling hundreds of thousands more than those VGC fabricators are making up. How about you just come out and say ioi and The Source are liars?

And no we don't know 360 outsold PS3 by 100+K in November. We know that's what NPD data says, but they estimate too. So don't just assume that NPD data is 100% correct and any apparent discrepancy between NPD and VGC is entirely an error on the part of VGC. I think time has shown that VGC data has a pretty low differential when compared to official shipping figures coming directly from the manufacturers.