| Osirus said: Well I came here from another gaming site forum ,not any you mentioned, that claimed that VGC numbers are all guesswork and are not accurate. I came here and saw you guys had a big community so I thought I would ask. |
Its definitely a fair question to ask. I think you will find that people don't mind it when someone questions the data, but only when they don't wait for an answer before making up their mind. A lot of people new to seeing this type of data make simple mistakes regarding NA vs US or WW vs NPD or NPD vs NA, etc...and occasionally folks have a hard time understanding the subtle differences between those things.
edit: Leo-j points out another common mistake folks make. Basically the only thing the big 3 (Nintendo, Sony, & MS) can track is how many units they ship to retailers, this is why their financial reports are understood implicitly to be "shipped to retail" numbers and not "sold to consumer" numbers.
Basically there are three "locations" that finished units travel to and from:
1) Shipped to Internal Warehousing (aka MS/Nintendo/Sony Warehouse)
2) Shipped to Retail/Sold to Retail
3) Sold to Consumer.
Sony used to count thier units based on #1, but now use method #2. Nintendo & MS have always (afaik) used #2. VGC tracks #3.
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