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Hynad on 14 October 2010
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Euphoria14 said:
Hynad said:

The problem with VGChartz' way of estimating the PS Move user base is that it doesn't take into account the many players that had a PSEye years before the Move controller got released.

I'm as much a new PS Move user as someone who bought a Move bundle, yet all I needed to get was the stand alone motion controller.  VGChartz doesn't track such users.  I know I'm not the only one in that scenario, so the VGChartz way of estimating the PS Move user base is open to major error margins.


I believe they estimate that 25% of the "unique userbase" are previous Eye owners, but to be honest there is no possible way of knowing that. This is why I do not like to follow VGC Move numbers. 

There is no way at all to know what the actual install base is. 

It could be lower, but it could also be much much higher.

I don't understand why they think it should be the way to go: Calculating the user base.  As far as we know, this site is about sales, not user base.  Otherwise, they would correct the numbers for many consoles.  Especially the DS's and 360's.  As those 2 consoles are known to have been bought multiple times by a single user.  Of course, that would be painful.  So again, I think VGChartz should just drop the estimation altogether and just report the data released by Sony, or just count the actual sale of the many PS Move compenents (Bundles and stand alone controllers).