CNBC: 310,000 Xbox 360 consoles sold in the U.S last week

[naznatips]

naznatips said:

sinha said:
And let me add that's not a criticism of vgchartz, ioi, or any of the data here, this site is great and I hope it eventually takes NPD down. I just hope it becomes more and more accurate with time (something that requires increasing the number of data sources, hell no numbers can be perfect until the data is from ALL potential sources).

But people are too focused on the pretty numbers when there is a fairly large margin of error in all of this.

The mistake you are making is you are assuming this data is from NPD, but Microsoft said it's from "top retailers."  Are these direct reports they got from Walmart and EB Games?  It just seems we don't have enough information on this data to claim it's accurate.  

Also, then we have this statement:

Software sales continue to outpace those of Wii and PS3, with Xbox 360 capturing 54 percent of total software sales at $162 million during October, according to NPD. Wii and PS3 captured 30 percent and 16 percent, respectively.

Obviously the Gafer misinterpreted this.  This isn't sales during black friday week, it's sales during October that Microsoft claimed they outsold both combined.  Which actually makes Microsoft's numbers seem credible again, so I have no problems with them. ^_^