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FishyJoe on 12 February 2008
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hunter_alien said:
FishyJoe said:
But do you have any proof that it's only PSP that's being undertracked? Aren't all games regardless of system that miss the charts not counted in the weekly total? If so, then then all systems will be under represented, not just the PSP.

It's possible the PSP is losing by even bigger margins if you include all games from all systems that don't chart. I'd bet that the ratio of games sales vs system sales for charted games is close to the ratio of non-charted games vs system sales.

Just look at the top 50 and you can see that only there every sistem has more than 4 games in the top 50 . 4 games , thats all that is tracked in the EU for the PSP , 4 games . Not 10 , not 40 , but 4 . The DS has in worst case cenario ~ 80 tracked games , but I put my head on that its more . Unfortunatly what I see now is that only PSP software is so severly undertracked , and Im positive , that in Others the weekly hardware sales have over 2:1 attach ratio , but it could be even more ...

 

The PSP is not loosing by even bigger margins , because it cant be wors than this , bealive me ;)


Again, the PSP is not exclusive to having game sales that don't chart. The DS has a massive library of games, most of which never make the charts. Same goes with the PS2. Wii, PS3 and 360 less so because the systems are newer.