PlayStation 4 Has Slight Sales Advantage in US Following Holiday Supply Issues

[kirby007]

ioi said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

ioi, may suggest something?

I think the main problem with VGC numbers is that you provide very precise numbers, for instance PS4 appears to have sold 429,446 units. This makes people put too much emphasis on small differences and gives the impression of perfect accuracy. Perhaps you should start presenting data as margins (say, 390,000-470,000) or round them all to the nearest 10,000  (430,000) so it doesn't give the impression that the numbers are 100% accurate.

You could still add these precise numbers (429,446) to the totals, etc. so that people can figure them out if they want, but at least I think looking at the main page numbers would have a psychological effect where people realise more easily that these are estimates and not 100% accurate 100% of the time.

We discuss this in the other thread, I've yet to come up with a way of physically presenting the numbers as you suggest without it looking horribly messy. Also, how do you decide what order to put things in? The convention of presenting the midpoint of the range of estimates is one that is used by everyone else so I've always been happy following the it.

In all honesty, I think most people understand that it isn't meant to be a precisely measured number but maybe it does need to be made more explicitly clear for those few who don't.

So could you put any tech guy to work to also activate other network ids back in our profiles? ( instead of just the psn id )