TheSource comments on Sony's shipment figures

[Kynes]

ioi said:

Kynes said:

kowenicki said:

Very difficult to argue with this....

 

True, but sometimes is very tiresome to read the same things over and over again. Maybe if we could find the reason why Sony numbers seems a bit higher than they should be according to the trackers numbers, we could have less "Sony is undertracked" threads.

Well I certainly don't have an answer / reason for why I'm afraid. I just focus on doing the best job we can at putting our numbers together each week.

In all honesty, if we suddenly just decided to fudge all the numbers so that we had PS3 at 38m rather than 36m, would it really make that much difference to anyone? Would it change the situation significantly? Wouldn't you rather we were trying to be internally consistent and using the same methodology and basic scaling factors for all consoles than just (incorrectly and dishonestly) fudging things to keep people happy?

If you think it is tiresome, spare a thought for how we feel

I think I haven't explained myself properly. English is not my native language, and sometimes I don't express what I really want to mean. I don't have any problem with this site numbers, I think that they provide really useful info of the market trends and numbers, and I don't think there are big discrepancies with the real sold to end user numbers.I'm sure that a big proportion of the people who visit this site really appreciate your and the rest of the staff work, and it's only the people who use numbers as a weapon in system wars who complain every time the numbers don't correlate with what they want them to be.

 

What I want to mean is that it's very tiresome to see the same threads made by the same people every Sony financial report, and maybe, if we can find an explanation to those "missing" consoles, we would have a more peaceful community. Only that.