Just Alter The PS4 Sales To 10 Million And Have Done With It.

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outlawauron said:

Teeqoz said:

Again, It's a serious crime to lie about numbers like that. Sony aren't stupid enough to do that.

Sony can get sales numbers from the retailers they ship to. Because of electronic registers and whatnot, every retailer knows precisely how many units of PS4s they have sold.

1. It's not a crime at all.

2. It's PR speak, and they did so without quoting where the data came from.

3. It's happens all the time, and I was proven right a few months ago with watch_dogs and MK8.

I will say that if the perfect world where Sony gets perfect data from every retailer, then why they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to access NPD, Chart Track, and Japanese sales data?

They didn't say where the data came from when they made the 7 million announcement either. A company would not tell such a straight up lie on a big stage, they would just be deliberately ambiguous, like MS was with the Tomb Raider thing. The 10 million thing is true and Sony has their ways of figuring that out.