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dsage01 on 15 December 2011
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Pineapple said:
dsage01 said:
Kynes said:
smbu2000 said:
ethomaz said:
I said before... PS3 over 400k in EMEAA.

Didn't it sell under 400k in EMEAA? It sold 413k in Europe + AP/MEA. It sold 44k in Japan, (not counting the rest of AP) it sold about 370k.

He also said that the X360-PS3 difference would be 70-80k.


Yes but PS3 is looking horribly undertracked in the Americas at this rate it won't sell more than 900k (Which it sold in the U.S.A. alone in one month in November) The fact that VGC can't accept that the PS3 is outperforming the Wii in the U.S.A./ Americas is really pissing me off now. And more adjustements needed for November 2011 in the Americas section. Why did 360 get pushed down? And how is Wii STILL above PS3 in Americas? This is just ridiculous


While making our own predictions for whether we think VGChartz is over- or undertracking consoles is fine, accusing the site of having an anti-Ps3 bias is just silly.

The site has been over and undertracking different consoles several times. The X360 has been overtracked at times, the Wii has been overtracked at times, the Ps3 has been overtracked at times, as has the DS and PsP. They've all been undertracked at times too. When the numbers are wrong, it's down to an error, or just the data sample not being representative. It isn't down to a petty dislike of one console, that's all in your mind.

The by far most likely reason for why it isn't updated yet, is that VGChartz has to be relatively certain before updating the numbers. They also need to be a lot more precise than what you need. Let's say they find out that the X360 is hugely undertracked. They have to find out both in which weeks it was undertracked and in which countries it was undertracked. They can know that their numbers are wrong, but if they don't have any better estimates, they have to stick to the ones they have.

I understand what your trying to say and I did think that eariler. But given the fact that they've already adjusted the weeks and are still undertracking the PS3 and overtracking the Wii in the coming weeks (I'm basing this on November 2011 NPD) really sounds stupid. Despite them having data that can provide them with most of the information for each territory (with the exception of Asia and Pasific and some countries in Europe) they still haven't gotten down accurate data. I must say there software tracking and hardware tracking is now much stronger in Europe and its much more weakning in the U.S.A./Americas.