Global Hardware Chart - 05 July 2014

[DerNebel]

zorg1000 said:

DerNebel said:
I'm surprised nobody is talking about this (maybe people don't care enough) but what the heck is up with th european 3DS numbers and the adjustment? They must have adjusted the thing up by at least 200k in Europe and I don't see how that makes much sense.

I mean in 2014 the 3DS is down in the US, it's massively down in Japan but it's supposed to up in Europe (and not by a little if I might add)?

They just had to adjust the 3DS down by over a million a couple months ago and it's pretty obvious that vgchartz' european tracking is lacking the most, so I'll mark the adjustment and the european 3DS numbers as very doubtful for now.

Vgchartz numbers could very well be wrong but its not unheard of for different regions to have different peak years. For example, DS peaked in 2006 in Japan, 2008 in Europe and 2009 in America with the global peak being 2008. So just because America/Japan are down from last year doesnt necessarily mean it will be down in Europe as well.

This whole adjustment just comes very much out of the blue, which is why I find it so hard to believe. There were no news articles or anything suggesting that european 3DS sales are as strong in 2014 as Vgchartz is depicting them, that's why I'm really doubting this whole adjustment.

Also according to Vgchartz the 3DS is up 66% in the first half of 2014 in France compared to 2013... yeah, I don't believe that for a second.