| DerNebel said: NPD has just proven that those charts are wrong. |
NPD isn't official, nor is it 100% accurate. What you can say is that NPD disagrees with those numbers.
But then, there's a few issues people aren't accounting for:
1. VGChartz's 4 week number is 62k, which isn't dramatically higher than 49k (less than 27% higher). VGChartz has the weekly average at 15.5k, NPD has it at 12.25k... that's undoubtedly well within the margin of error of the two tracking systems.
2. 49k is not an official number. It's a claimed number according to one person on NeoGAF, which doesn't make it confirmed. Looking at all of the numbers claimed, and comparing them with VGChartz numbers, it's rather suspicious - basically, "Aquamarine's" numbers have PS3 and PS4 significantly undertracked on VGChartz, and every other system except PS Vita being significantly overtracked (Vita just says "<17k", which, since Vita is at 17k after 5 weeks according to VGChartz, means either "significantly undertracked" or "about right"). Also curious is that PS3, X360, and 3DS numbers have a "~" attached, implying that the numbers provided are... approximate? This couldn't possibly make sense given that the other numbers do not have such a symbol attached - either the numbers provided are guesses, or they're very incomplete.
3. Even if it were true, as Seece had to admit, the Wii U isn't actually down YOY, as you have to factor in number of weeks - for the four week numbers, 2014 comes out ahead.
