....He came up with it because in his mind, the X360 is always overtracked, and always needs to have it's numbers lowered until the PS3 wins. Simple as that.
It's hard to just say "oh wowie, I see a number that says the X360 is overtracked in country X in month Y, ioi needs to change it, stat".
The fact is, ioi has analyized, and worked with these numbers and extrapolations to get where he's at. His accuracy has been ALOT better, and I don't think he's going to change numbers based on a few new posters, and very biased posters, mere 2 cents. It doesn't work that way. ioi has ALOT more people to please than the 2-3 people that bemoan him about a system being overtracked.
Were the X360/Wii a bit overtracked in NA for the month vs. NPD? Absolutely. However, ioi has got to the point that he can be allowed about 5% per month until hardware shipments come out. Thats the key issue: he can't track sales over what h/w shipments in a given area are stated as. Therefore, it can take upto 3 months, or even more before sales are "fully" reigned in. The X360 was greatly this case earlier this year: it hovered around the 10m sold mark for what seemed to be like 2 months, because European data was overtracked. ioi only corrected it when he could actually find HARD PROOF that data was incorrect from multiple, verifiable sources.
He doesn't have that with Euro-data at the moment. All he has is a few Sony quotes here, GFK data there, and his own numbers he's using. Compiling the data to be accurate takes time, and it has no bias. Diomedes, you really, really should try to earn some respect, and not harp on European PS3 or X360 sales every chance you get. You do it all the time and it gets old, bud.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
