Tose via famitsu: ps3 outsold 360 by one million 42M vs 41M

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Torillian said:

theprof00 said:

Torillian said:

but that theory still leaves you with two customers for two shipped units so in theory the install base which is the important number would still be the same as if MS had just replaced the original broken 360.

We aren't an install-base tracking site, we're a sales site.

I agree that two people still get two units, but we don't know how many used 360s gamestop has in warehouses, and we don't know if those consoles still work either.

Saying ours numbers are fine because they track install base with higher accuracy doesn't correspond with what you countered

Oh we're arguing that this is the number that our site should or should not have?  I thought we were just talking about what the number could plausibly be and its significance. 

I can't at all agree with the idea that the site should take any kind of credence in these numbers because they are from a developer without any reference to how they come upon them.  Taking Nintendo's numbers as meaningful makes sense because we have evidence that Nintendo have their own tracking organization.  We have no such proof that these developers have their own method of tracking. 

what? No. Our site should not have these numbers. We are a sales tracking site. My theory still holds them as sales (being shipped).

But in reality, this number could be a lot closer to the actual install of current gen.