Sonys american Reign has ended.

[MikeB]

starcraft said:

MikeB said:

kingofwale said:

__XBrawlX__ said:
@kingofwale
I meant just America, not worldwide.

Remember NPD number for Jan in US? where VGC undertracked PS3 by about 80K? It outsold xbox in Jan too.

Yes according to the NPD the PS3 outsold the 360 by 60K for January (US), according to VGChartz currently they still have figures for January suggesting the 360 outsold the PS3 for North America by 62K. That's 122K worth of difference with the NPD. (for 2007 even after corrections there's still a difference of 234K with the NPD as well)

IMO wait for March NPD figures before celebrating. (The industry and this website's managers consider the the NPD to be more accurate

Shipment figures indicated that VGChartz tracked 360 and PS3 better than NPD in the USA in November and December............

 

I think NPD gets shipment data, AFAIK neither Sony nor Microsoft complained about NPD's figures. But sold figures are likely lower than shipment figures, but how much this depends on how many retailers had units left in stock. Microsoft has been accussed for channel stuffing before (dealers interested in selling Vista had to buy stock or so it was claimed)