| pezus said: This really begs the question though where PS3 is really undertracked. After all, it's undertracked overall by at least a million. Some of it might be in Europe late last year as well as the 100-150k in Europe this year but most of it is probably where VGC have shown they have no idea how to track |
We had this same problem last time. European, North American and Japanese data was up to scratch, but there were a Million PS3's (among other consoles) missing in the wild. ioi gave us answers but I cant find the thread.
For people who dont know -
The problem comes from tracking outside of the main markets. The data that comes from these said markets is nigh impossible to collect with a great degree of accuracy and thus the data at times is incomplete. You wont get gfk estimations or NPD estimations from these markets, and official data rarely, if ever, gets released.
Hard to track places include Eastern Europe (Where the PSP will be doing really, really well), Asia, Middle East, China and South America. If you take a good look at the VGC data for North America, Europe and Japan the data shouldnt be too far off in the grand scheme of things. For what it is (Free) you cant really ask for better. People need to remember that VGChartz numbers are estimates first and foremost.
People forget that the numbers are free estimations. They arent fact.
