Sony Overships Ps3 by ALOT

[unknown_soul89]

jarrod said:

unknown_soul89 said:

DirtyP2002 said:

So NPD (US), Media Create (Japan), GfK (UK / Other Europe) and VGC (worldwide) are all wrong... ?!

I really don't know, but if we talk about undertracked all of the ones I listed above undertrack the PS3. Every single one. That does sound strange. But maybe Sony counts in a different way. Like consoles ordered, but not shipped or even sold to customer yet.

This is no trolling, just some thoughts.

 

the only number that is wrong for sure is VGC worldwide, because NPD is only in the US so canada isn't even in there, then theres japan which is just one country and GFK only covers europe, so we still got the rest of asia (besides japan), canada, australia and who knows what else unaccounted for 

GfK covers more than just Europe, it also covers some Asia-Pacific, African and Middle Eastern markets.  Notably Australia, in fact.  NPD also has tracking services for Canada, though we don't get the numbers all that often.  Usually Canada's about 8-10% on the US historically though, so we can get a good general idea.

In terms of major markets, the only real big mystery imo is probably Korea and some Southeast Asian markets.  Even those probably can't account for that much in terms of hardware though...

So in other words your saying npd is basically guessing Canada and GFK has more countries as basically an after thought, which I doubt are all that accurate, so yea, chances are the regions they don't major in numbers are off considerably, either that is MS is just paying them to lie about ps3s numbers, which even I think is a little out there, though I don't doubt that they paid off a few companies on the 360 failrate studies