September NPD: X360 #1 438k, PS3 374k, Wii 240k, 3DS 260k, DS 145k

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D-Joe said:

jugon21 said:

D-Joe said:

pezus said:

D-Joe said:

pezus said:

enrageorange said:
I really wonder how vcg reacts to these numbers. I mean they basically ignored the 360 npd numbers these past few months so I assume they think their tracking is more accurate(maybe it is who knows), so does that mean the ps3 and 3ds won't get adjusted? or meet the npd halfway? or they only ignore xbox 360 npd numbers?

I think VGC have stealth adjusted 360 a bit, long after the reports. Could be wrong though.

oh i remember,June's VGC 360 numbers is about 300k and NPD is 500k,did they adjusted?

I'll check the sales right now

Edit: June sales almost exactly 400k in Americas for June, so about 350k in USA. While NPD had it at 507k o.O

But to be fair, NPD YTD 360 sales are about 3.45m while VGC has it at 3.3m approximately. That's still within 10%

so VGC don't need to adjust anymore,just need to put more undertracked hardware numbers in next few weeks to make it within 10% YTD

Console	3DS	Wii	PS3	X360	PSP	DS
VGC-America for the period 02nd Jan 2011 to 01st Oct 2011	1,912,542	2,836,995	2,624,383	3,678,873	1,039,808	2,897,933

VGC-US(87.5%)	1,673,474	2,482,371	2,296,335	3,219,014	909,832	2,535,691
NPD-US	1,417,000	2,364,870	2,434,948	3,446,214		2,663,732

+OVERTRACKED      -UNDERTRACKED

+256,474

+117,501

-138,613

-227,200

-128,041

*NPD June

Jacob Mazel: "Michael Pachter did tell me in email however that much of the X360 year over year rise came from a) free X360s given away with Windows 7, and b) X360s sold directly to distributors (some of these units apparently ended up in Brazil) - and Microsoft convinced NPD to count both. Pachter didn't have figures on how many units those promotions added, but estimates that X360 would have dropped slightly year over year (-5% to -10%) without those inclusions."

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/87197/npd-tallies-us-video-game-revenue-for-june-2011/

why put this joke email/article again?

Seems to me that being within 10% of other sales estimates is doing fine. The only absolute number anyone really knows is shipment reports. And as long as VGC isn't above shipments or constantly vastly below (taking account of periodic channel stuffing) then VGC numbers are good enough for our purposes. In that table the only console that's really out of whack is 3DS being about 12% different between NPD and VGC . With Wii NPD and VGC are within 5%, PS3 they are within about 6%, 360 they are within about 8%, DS they are within about 5%. There doesn't seem to be much point in VGC responding too much to NPD, as long as VGC is within a reasonable range of shipment numers for each console.

For this month, it's a relief that NPD have PS3 25K/week higher than VGC. That's more like the price cut effect I was expecting. Quarterly shipments will be interesting, though I wouldn't be surprised if Sony shipped a butt load this quarter so there could be a big gap between shipment and sold through for PS3 in Q3. Get lots of PS3s into the distribution channel for the end of the year. I do hope that means R3 is a tad undertracked too. I'd like to see it bumped up 150-200K in the Americas.

3DS is and isn't surprising. It's surprising that a huge price cut hasn't raised sales a lot more. But it's not surprising given the lack of 3DS titles, according to a lot of people (personally I don't really keep close watch in game releases for 3DS, so I'm taking others' words for the "3DS has no phreakin' games" thing.)