NJ5 on 11 March 2008
| shams said: Why is this an issue? Its almost spot on for VG front page figures? One thing though - this would NOT include all the RRoD (or other) broken 360s that might be "plugged in" - but not working ;) ... MS has a "little" more than money than VG does. I'm sure if they wanted to, they could come up with a pretty good, damned close estimate of consumer sales worldwide. |
I'm pretty sure Microsoft receives weekly sales data from NPD for USA and Canada, Media Create for Japan, and GFK for Europe. Most likely they receive corrections for those figures on a regular basis too.
That only leaves a few small markets uncovered (Australia/NZ, other American countries, other Asia, Africa and Middle East), which wouldn't affect figures significantly even if their data is not so good.
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