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Seece on 16 December 2013
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They do estimates of those but NPD is about 75% accurate so the number i gave could be the right one, though all i did was give an estimate and either way VGC is less than 25K off

I have no idea about Xenoblade NPD figures though

Are you just making this stuff up? NPD is more accurate than that.

Judging by the evidence out there, I find it very difficult to believe Xenoblade is anywhere near 1m copies.

"NPD covers roughly 60-65% of the U.S. retailers.[7][8][9] It notably does not cover Toys R Us (since Oct 2007) and Sam's Club retailers, but it has covered Amazon since Nov 2007 and Walmart since Feb 2012.[10][11] Although, NPD does not track Toys R Us, they do estimate Toys R Us and other retailers' sales using various algorithms and estimations. In February 2008, the firm announced they will begin tracking online game subscriptions for PC sales data and Xbox Live online subscribers on a quarterly basis and then start gathering data from digital distribution later in 2008."

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_Group

Pachter says that NPD is 85-90% accurate so 70% seems about right

800K is close to 1 million

Pachter says 90% so you say 70% seems about right?? Not to mention, you think it would work in Xenoblades favour, it works both ways, it could mean they over estimated sales rather than under.

But alas, I havn't seen any solid evidence other than Japan, so like I said, I find it very difficult to believe Xenoblade is anywhere near 1m.

It covers 60% and Pachter says they cover 90% so i too the mean minus pachters inaccuracy

I am not even talking about Xenoblade, i was talking about Mario 3D World, what brought Xenoblade into the discussion in the first place?

The game was very popular in Germany, sold out quickly as a gamestop exclusive and did well in Japan so 800K is believable(Just because you mentioned Xenoblade)

Seece don't twist things around 229K for 3D World in USA (Retail + Digital) seems like a fair estimate

Does it? How about remove 15k so it's 200k? Why are you assuming the inaccuracy is in its favour. Don't do that.