| firelink said:
In September, the PS3 got a couple of things: Price cut Resistance 3 Madden FIFA
Given a price cut and 3 kind of big releases within the span of 28 days, I assume that: 1) A lot of PS3's sales for September came within a few days of each of these events 2) Given those PS3 sales were exceptionally higher than normal, it raised the weekly average from about 50k to 75k.
Now, given this information, and the fact that, in America, the PS3 has had very few big releases since then, how does it make any sense that the PS3 would go up? Part of the way VGChartz tracks data is by using trends. The PS3 sold so and so weekly last year, the PS3 sold so and so weekly last month, run the numbers, do math, blah blah, get information from retailers, combine data, extrapolate, have a result. Why do you think the 3DS was overtracked by 100k in September? Because in August, the price cut raised the weekly average by a TON. VGChartz calculated that information into their data, and it caused the 3DS to be over by 10-20k every single week in NA. It is the same exact situation here. PS3 is in the same exact position that the 3DS was in last month. I expect overtracking, because an increase in sales for any system in October (a usually dry month) outside of a big software debut is unrealistic. The only system that should be rising is the 360. The 360 is coming off of a big release in Forza, and it always does well in America. No other system has any reason to go up. Oh, and I went all the way back to 2008 for October, comparing NPD to VGChartz. VG overtracked the PS3 every single time in all 3 instances (2008, 2009, 2010). |
Since when is 900k copies (Arkham City) in a week a small debut?
