TheSource comments on Sony's shipment figures

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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

Messing with the numbers only because they look strange would really make the site unreliable.