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DerNebel on 17 August 2014
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Aielyn said:
DerNebel said:

You kinda missed that teeny tiny fact that the PS4 is undertracked by around 550-600k here, if we average it out then the PS4 has sold 167k per week between April 6th and August 10th, and has thus outsold both combined almost every week.

OT: Let's say by the end of the fiscal year (March 31st) and we might be getting close.

If PS4 has been undertracked, it's possible that Wii U and/or XBO have also been undertracked. It's funny how people will point to one system being undertracked, but ignore the possibility of others being undertracked.

Also, you're averaging. It's possible it was undertracked on weeks that major releases happened, and not on the other weeks.

Besides which, I wouldn't be the least surprised if Sony was stretching the truth when they said "sold". It seems way too convenient that they were able to announce on the day of their Gamescom press event that they had just broken the 10 million mark - if they'd done it earlier, you can bet they'd have put out a press release immediately, given the milestone nature of 10 million. And since there's no solid, undeniable source for exact worldwide sales numbers, they can get away with such things. This isn't to say that they certainly lied or misled. But they're restricted by the same thing everybody else is - they can only get some of the numbers. They have to estimate, just like NPD, Famitsu, Media-Create, VGChartz, etc. What they do have access to that others don't is shipped numbers.

The thing is you're speculating here, the Wii U and X1 might be mistracked but we don't know. We do in fact know that the PS4 is undertracked, because even if Sonys numbers are internal estimates, they are still way more accurate than Vgchartz numbers and I doubt that they'd lie about something like that on stage.

Also the Wii U has a much higher probability of actually being overtracked, seeing that Vgchartz has the system at over 6.54 million units at the end of June with just 6.67 million units shipped, which puts it at less than 130k units stock or about 2 weeks at the rate vgchartz is saying the Wii U is selling at, don't know about you, but I find that a little unrealistic. X1 might be undertrracked, but we really have nothing to go on here.

And yes I was averaging, I know, but think about it, there were only 2 big games that could really move systems released in that window, Watch Dogs and TLOU:R, how much can we seriously have undertracked those weeks? The baseline of the PS4 has to be considerably higher than what this site is showing at the moment.