| BMaker11 said: For people who honestly, TRULY believe that VGC is 100% correct.....is it not impossible for VGC to be INcorrect? I mean, the January NPD numbers really didn't match up to VGC, so is it not logical to say there MAY be some hiccups in some numbers? |
I agree VGChartz data was too much off compared to NPD's data, all we can do is provide pointers for VGChartz to better make their estimates and update the figures.
It was off considerably for the UK as well (Chart Track has data for 90% of the UK market, often publicly shared through MCV):
MCV (reported a couple of weeks ago):
"ChartTrack has also revealed that the Sony console has been outselling 360 for the last month. “It has been outselling 360 for the last four weeks, but they were neck and neck over the Christmas period, weeks 49-52,” said ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch."
Also Australian figures are off for 2007, the PS3 was in 183K Austalian homes by the end of 2007, considerably outselling the 360 (VGChartz is still hasn't hit that figure nearly two full months later).
Sydney Morning Herald (reported a while ago):
"The install base for PS3 in Australia is now 190,000, which includes 30,000 consoles given away with Bravia television sets in a post-Christmas promotion that dramatically lifted sales of Sony's LCD TVs and saw Sony Computer Entertainment scrambling to get sufficient console stocks to satisfy demand."
PS3Vault regarding 2007 sales:
“On the Bravia PS3 offer, we’re now up to 28,000-plus - these are audited numbers from Sony. They have taken about a 30 percent market in flat screens for the month of January off the back of that promotion,” said SCE Australia boss Michael Ephraim.
Recent figures from Sony showed that over 155,000 PS3s were sold in Australia last year, but Ephraim pointed out that the 28,000 units given away in the Bravia deal are not part of this figure, because industry data tracker GfK Australia “doesn’t report on a console if it’s given away free”.
North America, UK and Australia are the 360's by far strongest markets, but the actual situation is far better than the picture VGChartz painted for January. Japan is the easiest region to track with regular reports, European mainland is hard to track but there are clear pointers for how the PS3 performs in comparison with the 360.
