| ioi said: Well, remember these things: - 30-40k stores worldwide sell games, each has 500 - 1500 games - ~30-40m isn't an unreasonable range for software on shelves. - A lot of games (in EMEAA in particular) aren't tracked. Small ones admittedly, but they add up. A similar situation holds for Wii and DS software: Nintendo - 610m Wii and 773m DS software shipped in http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2010/101028e.pdf http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?console=Wii&results=1000 http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?console=DS&results=1000 If you examine region-by-region you can see that once you take a set chunk for stock on shelves the main discrepancies lie in the EMEAA region which is where we have a lot of missing data. |
Really interesting stuff for sure! Glad to see Wii and DS software doing so well. ^_^
It really makes you think, that if hardware is such a tough task to track... I couldn't even imagine how tough it is to track software. So many different games and areas to track them in. But the team continues to do an awesome job. Well done. 
