koffieboon on 24 January 2008
| BKK2 said: Don't really have any European tracker figures to compare NPD and VGC to, so I'll compare to Media Create. 92.58% of shipped Wiis were sold according to them, so if we applied that to NA we get 8.19M, 0.16M higher than NPD, and 0.19M lower than VGC. So according to my pseudo-scientific analysis they're both within the margin of error. Applied to Others we get 5.83M, 0.22M below VGC. Obviously there's no reason why Japanese sold through % will apply to NA or Others, but it does match pretty well with VGC and NPD numbers. |
You can't really look at percentages, those will heavily be influenced by the height of the LTD numbers and will go down over time. Considering European and American sales peak towards Christmas and Japan towards New Year and shipment times will be a lot lower for Japan than the other territories I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo ended up shipping almost all their November production towards the US and Europe and shipped almost everything they produced at the second half of December to Japan. In that case all those units got to their respective regions in time for the holiday sales and maybe a few 100k units per region didn't end up on store shelves yet.
