Which global platform total is more accurate?

[VicViper]

TWRoO said:

VicViper said:

TWRoO said:

swii26 said:

spurgeonryan said:
http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/

I always like this one for some reason. Also I think that the DS is that close.

Nice, I want to believe that one too

I'm not really sure what that one is getting data from.... the Sega consoles and the PS1 are definately wrong on that platform totals page, and I don't understand the reason the current platforms are all slightly higher on that page than the weekly sales charts (perhaps it shows a combination of last shipped figures plus some recent sales figures)

Once I searched a lot for Dreamcast numbers, trying to know for sure... reading Sega's 2001 financial reports they show exactly this numbers (8.20 millions). Since they stopped production of the Dreamcast - it's annouced there too - it's really impossible (or illogical) for them to ship even 10k more than that, let alone 2.4 million. I really don't know how the internet got this overspread 10.6 million units sold, really. It's not mentioned anywhere I could find.

I searched myself and couldn't even add it up to 8.2m... the FY2000 report (ending March 31st 2000) puts the cumulative total at 5.55million:
http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/release/past/sega/2001.html
But I can't find anything about what it sold for the FY ending March 2001... just a sentence in the 2002 report about them selling off remaining DC inventory after they discontinued it after March 2001.

If you have a link to the 2001 report I would like to see it (for some reaosn on the IR website they have the 2000 data in the 2001 page: http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/release/past/sega/2001.html )

http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.segasammy.co.jp%2Fenglish%2Fir%2Flibrary%2Fpdf%2Fprinting_archive%2F2001%2Fe_sega_annual_tuuki_2001.pdf&ei=-RZCUI78Lobo9ATtz4CYBQ&usg=AFQjCNE7crfAEu1fVueE30kJI_bXuEAPaA&cad=rja

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"Totalling 8.2 million (...). Results fell far short of their targets, particulary regarding hardware sales volume."