Possible hardware stats error?

[scottie]

donovanrose said:

scottie said:

donovanrose said:

Big thanks for amking it clear it wasn't just the USA in the "America" section, I thought it was.  I guess the site doesn't have just USA stats huh?

For the majority of games, USA sales = Americas sales * 0.9. Obviously that doesn't work for American football, Ice hockey and a few other things

You know, I was thinking the same thing.  However, I'm trying to use this data for a thesis that will rely on small changes to make statistical arguments (still have to run the statistical tests), so that might make it difficult for academic purposes.  Do you know of any source that states what percantage of American sales=USA sales?  Since my primary interest will be hardware sales, so does the USA make up the vast majority of hardware sales too?

Well 0.9 is the figure used by the staff on this site, they certainly use it for both software and hardware, as shown in the link below. If you wish to know more, I would recommend talking to either the author of this article (VGChartz name thesource) or the owner of the site (ioi)

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2960