Ok a few things to add. Platinum just means the game sold over a certain amount which is not 4mil in Europe as ethomaz seems to mention way too often.
Second. At the end of 2010 polyphony only shipped 230k in ALL OF ASIA excluding Japan. It doesn't matter what the population of a country is. It matters how many of them actually buy consoles and games. So again. 3.2mil sold according to vgchartz while only 2mil sold in most of Europe is nearly impossible considering the asian shipment numbers.
Ethomaz's own numbers bite him in the ass. India a country with over a billion people only bought 20k copies of the game initially which might be considered good compared to other games, but is still terrible considering the population of the country. Clearly countries where the vast majority of the population live in poverty account for very little sales. So yes those 20 european countries listed make up the overwelming majority of sales in EMEAA. Finland has among the highest gdp per capita in the world hence why sales were actually good there. The only countries outside of Europe in EMEAA that have high gdps per capita are located in the middle east, quatar, Saudi Arabia, etc. That is part of Asia thus their sales can't account for over 230k according to polyphony's own shipment numbers. So it is very clearly overtracked in EMEAA.
And someone mentioned the pal charts? There were dozens of weeks in 2011 where fifa 2011(PS3) and black ops(PS3) were ahead of GT5(PS3) in the pal charts in every single region listed, and yet GT5 was often outselling them in EMEAA according to vgchartz. The pal charts just showed that it has consistantly been overtracked throughout this year as well.
