PS3 sales surge 400% on back of price cut in Australia

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scottie said:

Troll_Whisperer said:
So PS3 above 200,000 this week.

Although I'm not too sure that VGC really has first hand information for those sales, I heard someone say that they apply some algorith to UK sales to extrapolste to EMEAA, and that's why imprecisions happen the most here.

The list of retailers that VGChartz tracks is a closely guarded secret - anyone who claims they know for sure what the list is is lying. However, if you look at data for individual games when they are launched in Australia in a different week to when they are launched in Europe. you can see that Australian data is taken into account.

Maybe a bit of both. If you look at PS3 sales last week you can see that VGC has them 50% higher than the previous week, even though there had been no pricecut that week. Dunno, maybe a coincidence, but I don't think there are any big releases there to cause a 50% bump.

Edit: it was a 66% bump, just look a couple of posts above.