A lot of big games in EMEAA overtracked? Including gasp Halo Reach and Gran Turismo 5

[Michael-5]

binary solo said:

Michael-5 said:

mjk45 said:
I think your forgetting the middle east they seem to have gotten behind the PS3 also NDP only tracks NA where as Vgchartz is Americas as to Polophony I will leave that to ethmoza .

NDP only tracks USA, not Canada. VGC include Brazil, Mexico, and many other regions for it's Americas number. However a while ago I read that 87% of the Americas sales are contributed to US sales, and I would assume 8.7% contribute to Canada (1/10th the population).

As for EMEAA, not only did the OP forget the middle east, but they also forgot Africa. In the Middle East, Africa and Asia territory, there are 5 million PS3's and 3 million 360's. 600k for GT5 or Halo off 5 or 3 million consoles is very doable.

That and VGC now track Halo Reach digital sales from the bundle, NDP doesn't include those numbers.

I think, because they can't track all games that have a dual digital and disc release, that VGC should not be tracking Halo Reach digital sales. It's somewhat distorting of the sales charts if some games are goona have digital sales incl and others not. Unless they track those sales separately so you can see what's digital and what's disc.

More generally though SW sales are known to be less accurate than HW sales on this site. This is a sales ESTIMATING site after all. So if GT5 appears to have a 500K discrepancy between reported and actual (which is by no means certain) then that's only a difference of 12%. Seems like a pretty good job of estimating sales to me. Not really worth making a big deal of.

Get back to me when sales are >20% out of whack.

I don't mind VGC counting digital sales of Halo Reach because they are counting them via number of bundles sold (which would give a disproportional amount of Halo sales). However if they are going to do this, they must be consistant and do it for all digital bundles (Alan Wake for instance).

The main thing is VGC needs to be consistant, and they aren't right now.