| DKII said: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=2489 So the numbers are spot on for France. Do you actually have any evidence that any other numbers aren't "real" as you put it? Or would you rather accept a 1-week ban for trolling? |
Well ,following the REAL data that has arrived or been announced there are many striking differences .
First ,we know April ended in Germany with 16K PS3 sold and 9K X360 .Official data from GFk .After the current numbers we should assume the PS3 numbers are half the ones in April while the X360 has improved its numbers .
Second ,for the April week we received data from UK we know it was something like 17K PS3 and 11K X360 ....somehow the X360 has also increased sales and PS3 has reduced more than x5 .That was a special sales week as there was gifts due to holidays and Nintendo explained it was their best week since launch with 22K units .Now it appears it sells 25K units all the weeks .Sorry but although conceivable it isnt very normal and I have serious doubts about this .
And saying that here in Spain the PS3 is selling only 2k weekly ...well it doesnt have too much sense .The X360 number could be ok ,it was more or less what it was selling last year weekly .On the Wii side I dont know ,the demand for the Wii here must be one of the lowers in the world judging by the availability in the stores since march but maybe they are bringing a lot of machines so this number could be .
But there is more .....vgchartz data puts X360 data in france at 466K consoles .If they have half that they should be happy .France numbers for the X360 were 43K for the first quarter ,so some 12 weeks ....3.5K per week .The numbers for the X360 are too low this time not by much by too low .And making a progression of sales since launch makes hard to swallow they have double the installed base of germany and 4 times the one of spain.No way ,the X360 must be quite lower in France ,somewhere along the 300-350K .
The data from germany told us end april there was 260K X360 in Germany ,so 20K less that vgchartz marks for there .Yes ,there is still 3 weeks of may to add but that doesnt count for 20K consoles if it sold 9K in April complete .
At least Nintendo has given data recently and Wii numbers cant be too far off ,but with the others two I think the estimations sistematically downplay the PS3 ,that it is at least selling units not like the phantasmagoric X360 ,and gives too much to the X360 although by small numbers .
To be clear ,these numbers can only be considered estimations with a good degree of error .To admit these numbers are legit we should believe not only that the PS3 has somewhat imploded in sales ,wich could be after the launch and post launch sales ,but also that the X360 has doubled its numbers in some key markets ,something not clear at all specially with the actual software drought .
